Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie.

It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.

The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.

In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.

Man is remembered by his deeds.

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.

Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots.

What is best and most necessary usually happens.

I know that money speaks more loudly than need.

God, don't laugh!" Jamie said, alarmed. "I didna mean to make ye laugh! Christ, Jenny will kill me if ye cough up a lung and die out here!

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.

We had a food store at the theatre and I used to pinch food. I pinched some trousers and shirts to keep me going but they would wear out. I was virtually on the breadline.

This is a strange game.

The loss of control you fear is already in the past.

Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

Most investors are obsessed with the market size today and they don't think about how the market is going to evolve.