وأنا في كل يوم أزداد اقتناعاً بأن ما كان يصلح لآبائنا لم يعد يصلح لنا، سواء أكان ذلك في الفن أو في السياسة. والمثل الفرنسي يقول: الأجداد دائماً مخطئون.

“I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.”

“American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are a…”

“Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?”

“Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything t…”