It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.

A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too, while the stars and stripes floated over it.

So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.

Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour until you have no time left to plant a tree, or vine or flower.

It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch.

Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.

Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the Union appears to us horrible to the last degree.