One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.
In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.
One is oneself a fine consequence.
...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood.