We go to Europe to be Americanized.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.

Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free.

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.