...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!

The history of the intelligence community is replete with violations of the trust of the American people.