Relevant Quotables

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Pain and suffering can never become friends, but rather family who at never invited, yet always find unlocked doors to enter.

Benjamin Ashley Gardner

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I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them, I saw the debris and debris of all the slain soldiers of war, But I saw they were not as was thought, They themselves were fully at rest, they suffer’d not, The living remain’d and suffer’d, the mother suffer’d, And the wife and child and the musing comrade suffer’d, And the armies that remained suffer’d

Walt Whitman

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A MAN MAY SMILE, AND SMILE, AND BE A VILLAIN.

Susanna Haswell Rowson

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It has always seemed necessary to me to throw the weight of circumstance against the character I favor.

Flannery O’Connor

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She knew not the deceitfulness of her own heart, or she would have avoided the trial of her stability.

Susanna Haswell Rowson

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Self, darling self, was the idol he worshipped, and to that he would have sacrificed the interest and happiness of all mankind.

Susanna Haswell Rowson