But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls..

Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of thehighest grade, and ….

One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it may be, of their warmest summer's day; and….

We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip….

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 develop….

Men and women thought and did noble and mean things that would have been impossible to them before or after. A man cannot drink old Bourbon long and ….

Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unp….

the New Englander landed on a stony, barren tract, and a large share of his strength during two centuries has gone to force a living out of it. Hence….

Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror..

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil..

It was part of your religion to hate the British..

Reform is born of need, not pity..

TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if ….

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer..