“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
“They would talk about the bridge game they had played the night before with two friends. The main topic of conversation had been a Kansas City murder in which a woman had killed her husband over a hand of bridge. “You be dumb,” Ace told Jane (as he reconstructed it years later for Jerome Beatty of American Magazine): “I’ll try to explain the finer points of bridge, and why murder is sometimes justified.””
“Thus we have two different types of 'value' purchases - Nichols/Fenner/Beattie on attractive dividend yields and modest PERs, and Daejan at a significant discount to assets.””
“The army, under Rosecrans' administration, looks better than it ever did before. He certainly enters into his work with his whole soul, and unless some unlucky mishap knocks his feet from under him, he will soon be recognized as the first general of the Union.””
John Beatty was an American author and soldier, best known for his vivid memoir, "The Citizen-Soldier: Or, Memoirs of a Volunteer," which chronicles his experiences during the American Civil War. Born...