You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.
Rebecca Harding DavisThe histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.
Rebecca Harding DavisYou were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.
Rebecca Harding Davis... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.
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 DavisOur young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.
Rebecca Harding Davis