I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.

Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

So it was true! A pain slashed at her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.

The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low callings.