The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this great outlook for wo….

The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And yet what a pr….

... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and quiet intimac….

I should say tact was worth much more than wealth as a road to leadership.... I mean that subtle apprehension which teaches a person how to do and sa….

Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic court and its entoura….

How often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that ….

... the English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them..

This habit of free speaking at ladies' lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce and marital unhappiness….

The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge that the ….

Washington society has always demanded less and given more than any society in this country--demanded less of applause, deference,etiquette, and has ….

Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spi….

I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge..

... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters of the day work for the education of t….

The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart..

To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime..

...I think the Americans are the only people who have good beds. I consider the American bedroom unparalleled for freshness, comfort, and cleanliness….

In the early forties and fifties almost everybody "had about enough to live on," and young ladies dressed well on a hundred dollars a year. The daugh….

English people ... are very kind, very friendly, interested in a general way, and consider us a great, wonderful, unknown sort of Australia, and that….

War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace..

People who live in quiet, remote places are apt to give good dinners. They are the oft-recurring excitement of an otherwise unemotional, dull existen….

It is better to pay court to a queen ... than to worship, as we too often do, some unworthy person whose wealth is his sole passport into society. I ….