We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a grand thing to charge a battery or an earth-work lined with infantry.

It was not war, it was murder.

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.

There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.

Those who have happy homes seldom turn out badly.

Let our children be taught love love love.

Train our children to love God.

Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington.

The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.

The heat of midnight tears will bring you to God.

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.

You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.

Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass.

In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the worst enemy, the worst peril, is indifference.

We in Iraq have not descended from another planet. Just as people in many other countries have gotten over the tragedy of war, Iraq will get over its ordeal.

To feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know ... widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things.

We are the bees of the invisible. We madly gather the honey of the visible to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.

The bishops will govern the Church, the priests will do all the work and the deacons will have all the fun.