In Times Of Crisis Human Beings Don't

The Older The Violin, The Sweeter The Music.

Call Listened With Amusement--not That The Incident Hadn't Been Terrible. Being Decapitated Was A Grisly Fate, Whether You Were A Yankee Or Not. But Then, Amusing Things Happened In Battle, As They Did In The Rest Of Life. Some Of The Funniest Things He Had Ever Witnessed Had Occurred During Battles. He Had Always Found It More Satisfying To Laugh On A Battlefield Than Anywhere Else, For If You Lived To Laugh On A Battlefield, You Could Feel You Had Earned The Laugh. But If You Just Laughed In A Saloon, Or At A Social, The Laugh Didn't Reach Deep.

A Bookman’s Love Of Books Is A Love Of Books, Not Merely Of The Information In Them.

Backward Is Just Not A Natural Direction For Americans To Look - Historical Ignorance Remains A National Characteristic.

Americans' Lack Of Passion For History Is Well Known. History May Not Quite Be Bunk, As Henry Ford Suggested, But There's No Denying That, As A People, We Sustain A Passionate Concentration On The Present And The Future.