Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

Private and public life are subject to the same rules-- truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better then policy or tact or expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line.

Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy

Almost from the moment she was born, she has done her duty without flinching and without complaint. That's one reason there is deep and abiding affection for her.