We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us. Rebecca Harding Davis Read Quote
Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young. Rebecca Harding Davis Read Quote
America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer. Rebecca Harding Davis Read Quote
Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North. Rebecca Harding Davis Read Quote
Our 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. Rebecca Harding Davis Read Quote
You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it. Rebecca Harding Davis Read Quote
But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth. Rebecca Harding Davis Read Quote
War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums. Rebecca Harding Davis Read Quote