North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.
Rebecca Harding Davisthe New Englander landed on a stony, barren tract, and a large share of his strength during two centuries has gone to force a living out of it. Hence he has come to regard economy - a necessary unpleasant quality at best - as the chief of virtues. He has cultivated habits which verge on closeness in dealing with food, and with the expression of feeling, and even - his enemies think - with feeling itself.
Rebecca Harding DavisYou were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.
Rebecca Harding DavisFor, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.
Rebecca Harding Davis