Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.

The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.

Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie.

In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.

Man is remembered by his deeds.

You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.

Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots.

What is best and most necessary usually happens.

I know that money speaks more loudly than need.

If you are possessed by the desire to be useful for God on this earth, He will honor you, you will prosper and your life will be a testimony of success

you cannot teach art—you cannot make a soul

Grass is greener at other people’s feet because they watered it. You need not to let your environment control you

Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.

The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.

I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.

There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

Part of what I do comes from the fact that I don't know any jokes to tell. And when I do they're really flat and don't work.

But Anne, do you love him?" I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. "I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.