Man is remembered by his deeds.

I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if only the country comes out of this peril safe and to the satisfaction of the finest and best government on earth.

In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.

The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.

Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie.

But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here.

We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river.

That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work.

Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this.

I know that money speaks more loudly than need.

You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.

Man is remembered by his deeds.

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

It is with this as with religion: one usually believes what he has been taught.

It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.

You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.

What is best and most necessary usually happens.

It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue for at these points Richmond and Atlanta the enemys main strength is concentrated.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.

In great deeds something abides.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things to them unwillingly.

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.

He is not wise to me who is wise in words only, but he who is wise in deeds.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.