"All those happy confusions of himself with God, those identifications with divinity and genius, and that supreme self-confidence-all of them were as lost as the smoke of Gettysburg, the tears of Gethsemane."
Self-confidence
"All those happy confusions of himself with God, those identifications with divinity and genius, and that supreme self-confidence-all of them were as lost as the smoke of Gettysburg, the tears of Gethsemane."