The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet