An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.

One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none.

It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare.

Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.