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.

Quote by Rebecca H Davis

Topics: Rebecca H Davis Quotes

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits...

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits...

We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer...

We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer...

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.

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

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

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief...

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief...

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general...

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general...

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us...

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us...

Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this...

Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this...

Reform is born of need, not pity.

Reform is born of need, not pity.

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

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

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

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

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

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

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were...

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were...

I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson...

I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson...

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost...

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost...

It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words...

It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words...

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

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

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity,...

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity,...