The mind resorts to reason for want of training.

A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly

The American man is a very simple and cheap mechanism. The American woman I find a complicated and expensive one. Contrasts of feminine types are possible. I am not absolutely sure that there is more than one American man.

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.