The splendid city of Minneapolis…In no place I have ever seen (and I have been in many) were the winter nights so clear and beautiful, and the stars so many and so bright as there.
—Colonel John H. Bliss, Reminiscences of Fort Snelling
“Wherever you go, madam, it will matter little what you carry. You will always carry your goodness.”
—Henry James, The Bostonians
“And, ach! what a beautiful skeleton you will make!”
—George du Maurier, Trilby