“God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.”

“O God! what a thing it is to be a ghost, cowering and shivering in an altered world, a prey to apprehension and despair!”

“Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence.”

“GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.”

“Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.”

“His act was rather that of a harmless lunatic than an enemy. We were not so new to the country as not to know that the solitary life of many a plainsman had a tendency to develop eccentricities of conduct and character not always easily distinguishable from mental aberration. A man is like a tree: in a forest of his fellows he will grow as straight as his generic and individual nature permits; alone, in the open, he yields to the deforming stresses and tortions that environ him.”

“War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.”