Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.
William Dean HowellsIt is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
William Dean HowellsThe wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.
William Dean HowellsIt's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One brother will be civilized and the other a barbarian...All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.
William Dean Howells