The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.

Boston - wrinkled, spindly-legged, depleted of nearly all her spiritual and cutaneous oils, provincial, self-esteeming - has gone on spending and spending her inflated bills of pure reputation, decade after decade.

The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing.

Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans.

Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires.

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.