Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.

The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.