Wine is a civilizing agent.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.

A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.

There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn.