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

Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines.

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

in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other.

It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.

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

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.