There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.

There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.