I believe we were all glad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place. Amongst the natives there is absent that charming simplicity which is found at Tahiti; and the greater part of the English are the very refuse of society. Neither is the country itself attractive. I look back to but one […]
Places Quotes
At Casa Blanca – Consuls abound, of course, so do hyenas – that is outside the town – but both are harmless and furnish little sport.
We then walked to the Pantheon…. I said there was not half a guinea’s worth in seeing this place. Johnson: “But Sir, there is half a guinea’s worth of inferiority to other people in not having seen it. Boswell: “I doubt, Sir, whether there are many happy people here. Johnson: “Yes, Sir, there are many […]
One of the strongest prejudices that one has to overcome when one visits Australia is that created by the weird jargon than passes for English in this country.
I like it (Chicago) in spite of lake-wind sharpness and prairie flatness, damp tunnels, swinging bridges, hard water, and easy divorces… A lady from the East lately said of it, very charmingly, “It is New York with the heart left in.”
To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough.
Poor Mexico! So far from God and so close to the United States.
Peru, it may be fairly said, is the only nation in the world which lived basically for a long time on bird manure.
Denmark is no vacation paradise. It is cold and rainy and dark except for June and July, when it’s extremely expensive.
A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image.
