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

It was not war, it was murder.

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

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

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.

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.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

It’s my life and I’m not afraid to LIVE it! I would rather experience the ups and downs of a life I have chosen, than to suffer the regret of a life I have settled for.

She had seen what it cost him and her heart quickened with compassion. For that alone, she might have loved him almost.

The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.

Don't fight with your thoughts or try to suppress them with your will. This will only frustrate you and bind you to your thoughts even more strongly.

To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!

I'm a big believer that you always reiterate, you always learn, you always realize your business is evolving.

We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.