In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
When I was young, I was no one. Now, I'm worldwilde.
Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.
It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.