It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.

We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

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

Nothing any good isn't hard.

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were instinctively drawn East and North toward them - this was the greatest nation and there was gala in the air.