When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.

Nothing has happened today except kindness.

The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.

Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

"Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere, because they think of everybody else as native.