Rutherford B. Hayes Quote

Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.


About Lucy Webb, nine years his junior, whom he later married, in a letter to his sister, Fanny Hayes Platt (23 October 1847) - Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)


Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.

Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.

Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.

Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.