A biography for Rebecca Harding Davishasn’t been written yet.
“North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.”
“America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.”
“The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.”
“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.”
“No man surely has so short a memory as the American.”
“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.”
“Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.”