The Power To Love What Is Purely

What A Pity, When Christopher Colombus Discovered America, That He Ever Mentioned It.

The Announcement That You Are Going To Tell A Good Story (and The Chuckle That Precedes It) Is Always A Dangerous Opening.

There Are Big Men, Men Of Intellect, Intellectual Men, Men Of Talent And Men Of Action; But The Great Man Is Difficult To Find, And It Needs --apart From Discernment --a Certain Greatness To Find Him.

The Ingrained Idea That, Because There Is No King And They Despise Titles, The Americans Are A Free People Is Pathetically Untrue. . . . There Is A Perpetual Interference With Personal Liberty Over There That Would Not Be Tolerated In England For A Week.

[to Her Host Upon Leaving A Party:] Don't Think It Hasn't Been Charming, Because It Hasn't.