“You may be whatever you resolve to be.
Through life let your principal object be the discharge of duty.
Disregard public opinion when it interferes with your duty.
Endeavor to be at peace with all men.
Sacrifice your life rather than your word.
Endeavor to do well everything which you undertake.
Never speak disrespectfully of any one without a cause.
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Let your conduct towards men have some uniformity.
Temperance: Eat not to dulness, drink not to elevation.
Silence: Speak but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
Frugality: Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; waste nothing.
Industry: Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off unnecessary actions.
Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and if you speak, speak accordingly.
Justice: Wrong no man by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries as much as you think they deserve.
Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles, not at accidents, common or unavoidable.” — Stonewall Jackson, cited in Mary Anna Jackson, Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson (1895), pp. 35-36