But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.

Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North.

Who is Antonio Weiss? He's the head of global investment banking for the financial giant Lazard.

A family friend was staying with us once and had brought over a ukulele. I just loved the way she played it. I saved up the money from my 11th birthday and went out and bought one for myself.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.