. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.

Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world

Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.

No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.

I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.

Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead.

. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.