Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.

the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.

Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.

Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.