You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

My books are water

The pendulum wall clock ticked and the ancient refrigerator clicked on. From outside came the low mooing of a cow. Such peace, thought Emily.

If your pain is the same like somebody else, I think that this will be the best couple it will be.

If you are bored it is only because you are a boring person.

Woman's place is in the wrong.

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

Be unfashionable. Take risks.

As an investor I cannot tell that. We cannot predict the success or failure.

I believe in struggle. And I believe that the struggle is beautiful. You have to try it or you will never know what's beyond it.

For good or ill, your habits will make or break you.