In England, the American woman was looked upon as a strange and abnormal creature with habits and manner something between a red Indian and a Gaiety Girl. Anything of an outlandish nature might be expected of her. If she talked, dressed, and conducted herself as any well-bred woman would … she was usually saluted with the tactful remark, ‘I should never have thought you were an American,’ which was intended as a compliment … Her dollars were her only recommendation.

—Jennie Jerome Churchill, Lady Randolph Churchill

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

—PROVERBS 22:6