Rebecca Harding Davis Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.”

“You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.”

“The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.”

“America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.”

“But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.”

“It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.”

“It was part of your religion to hate the British.”

“No man surely has so short a memory as the American.”

“North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.”

“The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.”