Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel that army life was really kind of fun, as long as [General Philip] Sheridan was up front.

Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned.

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train

Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.

Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.