Knute Nelson

In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.

It is with this as with religion: one usually believes what he has been taught.

We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.