Now, gentlemen, let tomorrow be their Waterloo!

The curse of God must have been on our people when we chose him out of so many noble sons of the South, who would have carried us safely through this Revolution.

That living specimen of gall and hatred, that individual.

The enemy has assailed my outposts in heavy force. I have fallen back on the line of Bull Run and will make a stand at Mitchell's Ford.

He suddenly saw the enterprise of literature as essentially mad.

Original sin is a very commercial idea, ” said Duyckinck. “How do you think the Bible stays in print year after year?

Melville to Hawthorne: "In your stories, you seem to understand that the dramatic moments come not when a character must choose between right and wrong buy when he must choose between two wrongs.

Destroying oneself, he thought ruefully, should always be done at a deliberate pace.

We are forgetting to live in this world because we are always getting ready to live in the next world.

life is the most valuble thing money isn´t

All aspects of honor derive from honesty. A liar cannot truly be honorable, for where is the honor in deception?

When sinners judge, God takes the stand.

Life is just there, to be made the best of, until it isn't. And that's all right, too.

Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.Photographs are.

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.

You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which you ought to steer.

All the marvels of nature are glimpses of His divine power and expressions of His love.