It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.