A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn.

I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.

Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.

They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they call Wilson 'just a dreamer, not practical'- a year later they rail at him for making his dreams realities. They haven't clear logical ideas on one single subject except a sturdy, stolid opposition to all change. They don't think uneducated people should be highly paid, but they won't see that if they don't pay the uneducated people their children are going to be uneducated too, and we're going round and round in a circle. That- is the great middle class.

Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.

I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.