Self-parody Is The First Portent Of Age.

In Times Of Crisis Human Beings Don't Have It In Them To Be Rational.

You Can Scare Off A Lot Of Cowboys Just By Looking Mean, I Guess.

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

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.

-she Remembered Them Kindly, For There Was A Sweetness In Boys That Didn't Last Long, Once They Became Men.