Is the sea drying up? It is going up into mist and coming down on us in this water spout, the rain. It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.

The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.

There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.

We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

Die before you die and find that there is no death.

if you don't play with relations and respect to love you may get hurt And spend life in pain but you will die in rest.

Whenever you have good dreams never let it go, because dreams are seed which germinates result into fruitful tomorrow .

Ben walks in the room and asks, “What were you guys doing?” Nikki says “Nothing” at the same time I say, “Your sister and I were just makin’ out.

She told Papa about it. He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. He shook his head sadly and said, "You have a bad case, a very bad case." "Of what?" "Growing up.

Everybody's a specialist.

I didn't choose BYU, I like to think it chose me.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.