The world is never ready for any innovation, he grumbled. The vast majority of people stubbornly cling to the past until people possessing foresight and a sense of adventure break a trail and bring th...
There comes a time in every young woman’s life when she must learn to trust the evidence of her own senses, of her own experiences, if it does not confirm what she has heard from others.
Upon reflection, Henry found it difficult to disagree with Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune and frequent critic of the Lincoln administration, when he complained that the president had e...
Mr Lincoln suggested that the Lord sent us this terrible war as punishment for the offense of slavery and that the war may be a mighty scourge to rid US of it
May the New Year be as full of happiness and peace and friendship.
Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.
He nodded, rueful. I immediately caught myself
The manor
Her greatest legacy could not be measured in garments or in words, but in the wisdom she had imparted, in the lives made better because she had touched them.
And of course you believed their wise counsel, said Elizabeth lightly, because people who have never met me are always the best judge of my character.
Paul had often told her that humanity’s most precious commodity was time—Not love, he had emphasized, not because it’s less important, but because you can run out of time, while love can be endlessly...
The sublimity of witnessing the ruler of a mighty nation turning to Holy Scripture for comfort and courage, and finding both in his darkest hour, brought tears to her eyes, and she was obliged to quic...
As if Laurie had recited the Apostles’ Creed in perfect Latin, and resumed tidying up the pews, humming along with the choir, occasionally making brief, quiet remarks to no one in particular, in a ton...
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and...
Ulys rarely left the house anymore, knowing that his appearance would incite speculation. His doctors came to him, and he declined invitations with the excuse that his writing demanded all his attenti...
Even the best of children can be little tyrants, believing themselves absolutely entitled to every bit of the love and servitude bestowed upon them by the adults entrusted with their care,
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