Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.

A true woman always loves a real soldier.

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.

I only wanted to help my people.

As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.

Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

I do not set myself up as an advocate of the woman's right doctrine, but would rather appear in the character of a quiet lady expressing her sentiments, not so much to the public as to her immediate friends.

I thank God that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.

Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there.

My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which has thrilled all Europe and filled her inhabitants with horror - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.

Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln, for in him I saw the destroyer.

There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.

What a jolly thing military surveillance is!

A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!

There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein.

U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.

When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.