Matt English

“knowledge was a stronger defense against the world’s wickedness than was ignorance.”
― John Jakes, The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell

“To work until the body aches is the best medicine for the loneliness that seems to be one of God’s great blights on existence.”
― John Jakes, The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell

“In this life, we are called to use our talents responsibly.”
― John Jakes, The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell

“east-side district of fiercely steep streets and huge old houses, many decaying, the air smelled of the river, and the German breweries and slaughterhouses. Detraining at the depot, Dills had nearly choked on the odor of hogs and more hogs. A European traveler had called Cincinnati “a monster piggery,” and nicknamed it Porkopolis. In the Tribune, old Greeley hailed it as “the queen city of the West.”
― John Jakes, The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell