That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose.

You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours.

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.