In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American - on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

To be young is all there is in the world. The rest is nonsense - and cant. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, s…

A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.

The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient …

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.