Author: Rebecca Harding Davis

Quotes

We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.

We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.

- Rebecca Harding Davis

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

- Rebecca Harding Davis

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

- Rebecca Harding Davis

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

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

- Rebecca Harding Davis

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.

- Rebecca Harding Davis

It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.

It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.

- Rebecca Harding Davis

TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.

TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.

- Rebecca Harding Davis

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.

- Rebecca Harding Davis

Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North.

Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North.

- Rebecca Harding Davis

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