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.

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

Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

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

there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.