Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. As he grew up it was his duty as a Christian and a gentleman to appear to despise filthy lucre, whatever his secret opinion of it might be.

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.

... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it may be, of their warmest summer's day; and then one can guess at the secret of intolerable solitude that lies hid beneath the delicate laces . . .