I am ill, but your being by me Cannot amend me; society is no comfort... To one not sociable. I am not very sick, Since I can reason of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 »
The more one knows of our life the more one must denounce it, lest it be suspected that one has a personal motive in defending it.... When other women speak of us you must assume an attitude of scorn, not only to protect yourself from suspicion, but that you may also feel it for yourself and have no temptation to return. When you think of us do not remember any small kindness that we may have shown you or that we show to one another. Remember only the things that have shocked you and outraged your traditions and your sense of decency. Remember your sufferings at the hands of beasts who are miscalled men. If you keep these things in view you will never again fall into temptation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My criticisms are always simple; they are limited to one word:MOmit! Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and eve...ry page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this rule; the flesh is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak words and useless pages I have written; but the law is sound, and every book written without a superfluous page or word is a masterpiece. All the same, no one cares to apply so stern a law to another person. One has right to be severe only with oneself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He has been described as "an innkeeper who hated his guests, a philosopher, and poet who left no written record of his thought, a ...despiser of women who gave all he had to one, an aristocrat, a proletarian, a pagan, an arcadian, an atheist, a lover of beauty, and, inadvertently, the stepfather of domestic science in America."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing is to be compared to the misery of being bound without Love, bound to one, & preferring another. That is a... Punishment which you do not deserve.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. T...hat is why we must hang on to one another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The land of shadows wilt thou trace And look nor know each other's face... The present mixed with reasons gone And past and present all as one Say maiden can thy life be led To join the living with the dead Then trace thy footsteps on with me We're wed to one eternityLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man's destination is not his destiny, Every country is home to one man... And exile to another. Where a man dies bravely At one with his destiny, that soil is his.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »