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…

- M. E. W. Sherwood

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…

- M. E. W. Sherwood

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…

- M. E. W. Sherwood

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

- M. E. W. Sherwood

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 …

- M. E. W. Sherwood

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…

- M. E. W. Sherwood

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

- M. E. W. Sherwood

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…

- M. E. W. Sherwood

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

- M. E. W. Sherwood