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.

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.

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

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.

Things spoken in love always become reality.

The greatest mistake is for a man to forsake his Maker.

Kindness has no religion. It is like an open sky.

You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series.

To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

The first person you lead is you.

More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store

Trying to act normal is the most unnatural behavior of all.

Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.