M. E. W. Sherwood Quote

Anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and quiet intimacy, a brilliancy of conversation--the proud prominence of intellect over material prosperity which does not exist in any other city of the Union.

An Epistle to Posterity: Being Rambling Recollections of Many Years of My Life (ed. 1897)