I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.

Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?

i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.