North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.

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

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

it is a mistake to talk of the twilight of age, or the blurred sight of old people. The long day grows clearer at its close, and the petty fogs of prejudice which rose between us and our fellows in youth melt away as the sun goes down. At last we see God's creatures as they are.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

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.

Reform is born of need, not pity.