No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.

If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.

Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.

It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?

Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.