Friends Are Born, Not Made.

Nothing Is Easier Than To Teach Historical Method, But, When Learned, It Has Little Use.

Whenever A Man Reaches The Top Of The Political Ladder, His Enemies Unite To Pull Him Down. His Friends Become Critical And Exacting.

We Combat Obstacles In Order To Get Repose, And When Got, The Repose Is Insupportable.

As For America, It Is The Ideal Fruit Of All Your Youthful Hopes And Reforms. Everybody Is Fairly Decent, Respectable, Domestic, Bourgeois, Middle-class, And Tiresome. There Is Absolutely Nothing To Revile Except That It's A Bore.

The Sensation Of Seeing Extremely Fine Women, With Superb Forms, Perfectly Unconscious Of Undress, And Yet Evidently Aware Of Their Beauty And Dignity, Is Worth A Week's Seasickness To Experience... [to Me] The Effect [of A Siva Dance] Was That Of A Dozen Rembrandts Intensified Into The Most Glowing Beauty Of Life And Motion.