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“As to me, so long as I have the strength, I shall battle against Melancholy. I am not philosopher enough to reason it away, so I’ll be content with singing it off.”
― Charles East, Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman

“My idea of happiness is a rainy evening with a comfortable book to read.”
― Charles East, Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman

“Soon found there is no way to rid yourself of a disagreeable man’s conversation more effectually than by not allowing him an opportunity of making a remark.”
― Charles East, Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman

“Here I am, at your service, Madame Idleness, waiting for any suggestion it may please you to put in my weary brain, as a means to pass this dull, cloudy Sunday afternoon.”
― Charles East, Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman

“I have a bad habit of hugging people when I am very happy, so every one who does not wish to be embraced had better keep away.”
― Charles East, Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman

“Well! this time next year, we will know all of which we are now ignorant.”
― Charles East, Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman

“Seeing his disappointment, I hastily resolved never to come between a man and his pun again. It’s worse than interfering between husband and wife.”
― Charles East, Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman

“Do I like being alone so much? Yes—sometimes! Nonsense! I like it very well. So delightful to shut one’s eyes and recite aloud without fear of being overheard, or dream golden dreams without the dread of being disturbed; or better still, write page after page with none to cry “Put down that pen before you kill yourselfâ€� or read some favorite author as long as one chooses, without having the extinguisher placed over the candle as a night cap.”
― Charles East, Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman

“Why can’t “They sayâ€� let every body settle their own affairs?”
― Charles East, Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman

“As I seem to possess irresistible attractions for every fool, the biggest one in the room fastened himself to me, and there remained.”
― Charles East, Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman

“I abhor the man whose first remark after being introduced is “How warm, or how cold, it is.â€� It proves either that he is a fool, or that he thinks I am one. This one expatiated on the weather. “Insufferableâ€� I said, which might be applied to both himself and the heat.”
― Charles East, Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman

“How a word more or less, an idea omitted or added, a syllable misplaced, can transform a whole sentence and make what was before harmless, really shocking!”
― Charles East, Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman

“I can't help feeling that the good books were purchased because they were talked of as being popular, and the trash was bought because it suited best.”
― Charles East, Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman