You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.