“Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spirit. It is a frozen requiem, with a nation's prayer ever in dumb music ascending.” MenFormJoySpiritNationsPrayerSorrowSeekingLondonDumbConventionalFrozenGreat SpiritAbbeyAscendingWestminsterRequiemWestminster Abbey Author:M. E. W. Sherwood
“The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart.” MenSaidEuropeRoundsPolishImpartCultivationSophistication Author:M. E. W. Sherwood
“In the early forties and fifties almost everybody "had about enough to live on," and young ladies dressed well on a hundred dollars a year. The daughters of the richest man in Boston were dressed with scrupulous plainness, and the wife and mother owned one brocade, which did service for several years. Display was considered vulgar. Now, alas! only Queen Victoria dares to go shabby.” MenYearsWellsEnoughYoungMotherWealthWifeFashionDaughterHundredDollarsDareQueensFortyDisplayVulgarAlasBostonVictoriaYoung LadiesShabbyWives And MothersPlainness Author:M. E. W. Sherwood
“How often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House.” MenShouldHouseLeftWhiteOfficeWhite HousePresidencyOblivionFillingGreat Office Author:M. E. W. Sherwood