"Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom." ~Bernard DeVoto
"The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it." ~Bernard DeVoto
"The nation had had two symbols of solitude, the forest and the prairies. Now it had a third, the mountains." ~Bernard DeVoto
"The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived." ~Bernard DeVoto
"The trouble with reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act." ~Bernard DeVoto
