T.R. Quotes

“When she died, he didn’t simply put away his feelings for her; he walled off a wing of the emotional house in which he lived. He would marry again and become devoted to his second wife. He would overflow with paternal feelings for his children. But he would never again visit that part of his personality where he had courted Alice.”
― H.W. Brands, T.R.: A Life

“Soldiers in foreign camps, so far from being missionaries for good, require missionaries themselves, more than the natives. Andrew Carnegie”
― H.W. Brands, T.R.: The Last Romantic