One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.

...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?

I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and deceit attack him at every step; the shops that he patronizes are full of forgeries... But we need feel no scruple or twinge of uncertainty; 'we' are travelers and cosmopolitans; the tourist is the other fellow.