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The chief pleasure to which I looked forward in crossing the plains was to ride on my pony every day.
— from History of California by Helen Elliott Bandini
No female patient, in the range of my practice, ever died of purely mental exertion.”
— from A Strange Story — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
Once I had the privilege of so doing in company with Generals Johnston and Beauregard; and I will now give my opinion of this, as I purpose doing of such subsequent actions, and commanders therein, as came within the range of my personal experience during the war.
— from Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Richard Taylor
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