The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better - quite happy - if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education.... On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.

Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.