Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go

I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.

If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.