It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

However British you may be, I am more British still.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.