All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.