Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.
What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?
And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.
Figaro is a bad play. It stirs up hatred between the classes. In France, it has caused nothing but bitterness. My own dear sister,Antoinette, writes me that she is beginning to be frightened of her own people.