TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.
Rebecca Harding DavisBefore the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of thehighest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.
Rebecca Harding DavisWe have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.
Rebecca Harding DavisAmerica may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.
Rebecca Harding Davis