At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

The sensation of seeing extremely fine women, with superb forms, perfectly unconscious of undress, and yet evidently aware of their beauty and dignity, is worth a week's seasickness to experience... [to me] the effect [of a Siva dance] was that of a dozen Rembrandts intensified into the most glowing beauty of life and motion.

For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and pray. Not that Icare. Only, if such is God's will, and Fate and Evolution--let there be God!

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.

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

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