Read History, Works Of Truth, Not Novels

Everyone Should Do All In His Power To Collect And Disseminate The Truth, In The Hope That It May Find A Place In History And Descend To Posterity. History Is Not The Relation Of Campaigns And Battles And Generals Or Other Individuals, But That Which Shows The Principles For Which The South Contended And Which Justified Her Struggle For Those Principles.

Obedience To Lawful Authority Is The Foundation Of Manly Character.

Shake Off Those Gloomy Feelings. Drive Them Away. Fix Your Mind And Pleasures Upon What Is Before You.all Is Bright If You Will Think It So. All Is Happy If You Will Make It So. Do Not Dream. It Is Too Ideal, Too Imaginary. Dreaming By Day, I Mean. Live In The World You Inhabit. Look Upon Things As They Are. Take Them As You Find Them. Make The Best Of Them. Turn Them To Your Advantage.

The Education Of A Man Is Never Completed Until He Dies.

You Have Only Always To Do What Is Right. It Will Become Easier By Practice, And You Enjoy In The Midst Of Your Trials The Pleasure Of An Approving Conscience.