For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

Jersey girls have this inner glow that makes them more beautiful than any other girls.

Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory. In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable.

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.

To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.