The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.

Useless as a pulled tooth.

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?

... if one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?

... 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.