“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.”
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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.