A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

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