Some objects and events may be photographed, others, if one is to render their true quality, should be painted or set to music, since their essence is more faithfully reproduced through imagination than by the journalistic report.

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.

Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.

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

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

Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.

When traveling abroad if you see something you yearn for if you can afford it at all, buy it. If you don't you'll regret it all your life.