One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

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

I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.