I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting. - Edith Wharton

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be "American" before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, & having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.