The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.

There is no beauty without order.

Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.