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

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

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

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….

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….

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

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….

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 ….

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 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….

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

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

If there is anything so romantic as that castle-palace-fortress of Monaco I have not seen it. If there is anything more deliciousthan the lovely terr….

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

If you should put a knife into a French girl's learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee..

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

Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there..

...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….

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 ….