Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.
And what is a man without energy? Nothing - nothing at all.
Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.
Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.
Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.