Rebecca Harding Davis

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

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#confident #equally #god #him #incessantly

Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#between #built #great #halting #national

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#beneficent #come #courage #deity #develops

Reform is born of need, not pity. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#need #pity #reform

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#clay #henry #hero #known #only

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#breath #earth #friends #love #our

TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#benefit #chance #could #credit #edit

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#armed #habits #may #mission #personal

We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#details #every #every man #gray #great

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#chief #grown #handling #increase #life