I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don’t know whether she is a gifted being, but she is a clever girl, with a strong will and a high temper. She has no idea of being bored...Very pretty indeed; but I don’t insist upon that. It’s her general air of being someone in particular that strikes me.

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.