One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as ‘the bizarre’. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

It’s only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.