Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.