Until You've Lost Your Reputation, You Never

[t]he Merciful Adjustment Which Nature Makes When What Cannot Be Cured Must Be Endured.

Land Is The Only Thing In The World That Amounts To Anything.

The South Produced Statesmen And Soldiers, Planters And Doctors, Lawyers And Poets, But Certainly Not Engineers Or Mechanics. Let The Yankees Adopt Such Low Callings.

Men Are So Conceited They’ll Believe Anything That Flatters Them

If! If! If! There Were So Many Ifs In Life, Never Any Sense Of Security, Always The Dread Of Losing Everything.