Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you. — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts. — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
“We try our soldiers to see if they are hot enough before we enlist them. If, when water is thrown on them they do… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you. — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
“I think incompatibility of temper began when it was made plain to us that we get all the opprobrium of slavery while they, with… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone. — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
Is the sea drying up? It is going up into mist and coming down on us in this water spout, the rain. It raineth… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men! — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
“Old Colonel Chesnut came for us. When the train stopped, Quashie, shiny black, was seen on his box, as glossy and perfect in his… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
