I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.

If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.