The 1860 election became a referendum on the southern way of life.
Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.
Early youth is a baffling time
The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States.
Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.
To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.