The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.

There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.

I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense.