The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.