There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.