Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances

— Robert E. Lee

The devil's name is dullness.

— Robert E. Lee

The devil's name is Dullness.

— Robert E. Lee

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

— Robert E. Lee

The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.

— Robert E. Lee

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

— Robert E. Lee

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forbearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

— Robert E. Lee

They seemed so united that I loved them as one person." Lee wrote of his son and daughter-in-law on his daughter-in-law's death.

— Robert E. Lee

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

— Robert E. Lee

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

— Robert E. Lee