Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.

Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.