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

Joan was a being so uplifted from the ordinary run of mankind that she finds no equal in a thousand years. She embodied the natural goodness and valour of the human race in unexampled perfection. Unconquerable courage, infinite compassion, the virtue of the simple, the wisdom of the just, shone forth in her. She glorifies as she freed the soil from which she sprang.

I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.

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

Cincinnati, I thought, was the most beautiful of the inland cities of the Union. From the tower of its unsurpassed hotel the city spreads far and wide its pageant of crimson, purple and gold, laced by silver streams that are great rivers.

There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.