The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart.

Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic court and its entourage of diplomatic circle; Rome, like Washington, gives you plenty of time and plenty of sunlight. In New York we have annihilated both.

English people ... are very kind, very friendly, interested in a general way, and consider us a great, wonderful, unknown sort of Australia, and that is all.

I should say tact was worth much more than wealth as a road to leadership.... I mean that subtle apprehension which teaches a person how to do and say the right thing at the right time. It coexists with very ordinary qualities, and yet many great geniuses are without it. Of all human qualities I consider it the most convenient--not always the highest; yet I would rather have it than many more shining qualities.

If you should put a knife into a French girl's learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee.

To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.

... the English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them.