There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad.

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

...the wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as if clothed in its own complexity; the humorous-tragic questionings of the universe; the delicious travel-pictures and fantasies; the lucid criticisms of art, and politics, and philosophy, informed with malicious wisdom, shimmering with poetry and wit.

What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors!

In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music.