There are no days in the whole round year more delicious than those which often come to us in the latter half of April... The sun trembles in his own soft rays... The grass in the meadow seems all to have grown green since yesterday.

Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.

The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The Englishman stands firmly on his feet, but he who merely does this never advances. The American's disposition is to step forward even at the risk of a fall.

Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.

Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading, and crochet-needle, and the occasional manufacture of sponge cake.

To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.

In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.