“Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic court and its entourage of diplomatic circle; Rome, like Washington, gives you plenty of time and plenty of sunlight. In New York we have annihilated both.” GivingEnoughStrongNew YorkQuietCourtDemocraticCirclesPlentyIntimacyRomeSunlightDiplomaticStrong PersonEntourage Author:M. E. W. Sherwood
“... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and quiet intimacy, a brilliancy of conversation--the proud prominence of intellect over material prosperity which does not exist in any other city of the Union.” DoeStatesCitiesMaterialsProudQuietConversationUnionsSimplicityProsperityIntellectIntimacyElsewhereDelightfulGrandeurProminence Author:M. E. W. Sherwood