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.

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.

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.

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.