“Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.”

“But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else.”

“London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.”

“National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degr...”

“What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there.”

“Custom reconciles us to everything.”

“America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.”

“What should they know of England who only England know?”

“Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.”

“Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.”

“Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.”

“There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right it is the ideal American...”