Jane Porter War Quotations

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.

Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty--he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution; and he rejects the providence of that All-Gracious Being who guides and rules the universe.

If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor.

Bright was the summer of 1296. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end.

in his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles ...