Just as I gave the command to charge I felt a stunning blow and found a musket ball had struck my left arm just above the elbow. F...earing that an artery might be cut, I asked a soldier near me to tie my handkerchief above the wound. I soon felt weak, faint, and sick at the stomach. I laid down and was pretty comfortable ... [but] seeing something going wrong and feeling a little easier, I got up and began to give directions about things; but after a few moments, getting very weak, I again laid down. While I was lying down I had considerable talk with a wounded [Confederate] soldier lying near me. I gave him messages for my wife and friends in case I should not get up. We were right friendly and jolly; it was by no means an unpleasant experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But my mother was in love and she had known about life for a long time, with her two bastard girls like two earrings; and she knew... that most often one must pull out one's entrails and fill one's stomach with straw if one wants to have a little piece of the sun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat... to live, not live to eat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's sto...mach the separation from terra ... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known ... this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The old--like children--talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one w...ere to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I think the Americans are the only people who have good beds. I consider the American bedroom unparalleled for freshness, comfo...rt, and cleanliness. It is worth going all over Europe in order to come home to one's own bed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace... to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed--but never the husband).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage-plays; or in so far as it recall...s a beloved object to one's memory, and makes one feel one's love for the thing, whose absence gives us pain. Consequently, since love is pleasant, both pain and whatever else results from love, in so far as they remind us of our love, are pleasant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »