We cannot ourselves avert the calamity of debt, for if we should recall every laborer, and close every school and church, we should still owe the salaries and return traveling expenses, so that the saving would be very little.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 33, No. 04, April 1879 by Various

Whereas , This day, throughout all this Southern land, sorrow, many-tongued, is ascending to heaven for the death of Robert E. Lee, and communities everywhere are honoring themselves in striving to do honor to that great name; and we, the people of Augusta, who were not laggards in upholding his glorious banner while it floated to the breeze, would swell the general lamentation of his departure: therefore be it " Resolved , That no people in the tide of time has been bereaved as we are bereaved; for no other people has had such a man to lose.
— from A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke

And winter blast to bide; But thou art of that gentle growth Which asks some loving eye To keep it in sweet guardianship, Or it must droop and die; Requiring equal love and care, Even more delicate than fair.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 395, October 24, 1829 by Various