Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.

That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.