We go to Europe to be Americanized.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house.