34 Quotes by Rebecca Harding Davis

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

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.

But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.

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.