Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

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

In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased; it always sounds well - In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.