I am as willing to serve now as in the beginning in any capacity and at any post where I can do good. The lower the position, the more suitable to my ability and the more agreeable to my feelings.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.

We have but one rule here, and that is that every student must be a gentleman.

Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.

We have only one rule here - to act like a gentleman at all times.

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.