America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.