Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.

When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.

... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects.

[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.

Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.