The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.

Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.

power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.

Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.

It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so

orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.