Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.

There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.

We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.

Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I?

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Let's gossip.... let's tell everyting about us....

The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight.

Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work.

The bride and groom-May their joys be as bright as the morning, and their sorrows but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love.

I'm a real big country boy.

All is well ended if this suit be won. That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day.