Agents Quote by Rebecca Harding Davis

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

— Rebecca Harding Davis

Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between…

— Rebecca Harding Davis

Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of…

— Rebecca Harding Davis

TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to…

— Rebecca Harding Davis

“Well, what was it to be a thief? He met the question at last, face to face, wiping the clammy drops of sweat from…

— Rebecca Harding Davis

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

— Rebecca Harding Davis

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.

— Rebecca Harding Davis

Reform is born of need, not pity.

— Rebecca Harding Davis

Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in…

— Rebecca Harding Davis

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up…

— Rebecca Harding Davis

It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as…

— Rebecca Harding Davis

I have never seen an adequate description anywhere of the amazement, the uncomprehending horror of the bulk of the American people which preceded the…

— Rebecca Harding Davis