In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names.

I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!