To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.