And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.

The Old Guard dies but it never surrenders.

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.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.

You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.