whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.

Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.

I don't believe in God, but I do believe in His saints.