We go to Europe to be Americanized.

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.

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

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.