I am not of Virginia blood; she is of mine.

But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.

I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.

A radiant fellowship of the fallen.

It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above; to set aside the near advantage, the momentary pleasure; the snatching of seeming good to self; and to act for remoter ends, for higher good, and for interests other than our own.

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

There is a way of losing that is finding. When soul overmasters sense. When the noble and divine self overcomes the lower self. When duty and honor and love immortal things bid the mortal perish. It is only when a man supremely gives that he supremely finds