New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.
Gertrude Athertonthe curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.
Gertrude Athertonpower, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
Gertrude Atherton