Robert Gould Shaw

If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?

I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you.

In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.