every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.

A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.

Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence.

I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

Many love me, but by none am I enough beloved.