Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.

A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.