Bernard Augustine DeVoto (January 11, 1897 – November 13, 1955) was an American historian and author who specialized in the history of the American West. Read full biography of Bernard DeVoto →
The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
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.
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was... →
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
Bernard Augustine DeVoto (January 11, 1897 – November 13, 1955) was an American historian and author who specialized in the history of the American West.