We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart. Rebecca Harding Davis bluedetailgray Change image and share on social
Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young. Rebecca Harding Davis calmchimneycommon share on social
The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet. Rebecca Harding Davis banquetbreathearth Change image and share on social
North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him. Rebecca Harding Davis appealconfidentequally Change image and share on social
But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth. Rebecca Harding Davis faultnationvanity Change image and share on social
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute. Rebecca Harding Davis absolutearmycamp share on social
TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance. Rebecca Harding Davis benefitchancecredit Change image and share on social
We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us. Rebecca Harding Davis businesschiefgrow Change image and share on social
No man surely has so short a memory as the American. Rebecca Harding Davis americanmanmemory Change image and share on social
The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay. Rebecca Harding Davis childhoodclayhenry Change image and share on social