There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

They say the Lord's Day is a day of rest, but those who preach this generally are not women.

Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence.

My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.

The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.