...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

...fry me an optimist for breakfast.

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.