One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.
Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.
The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow’r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem’d, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.
Our country is where ever we are well off.
Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.
The air of one’s native country is the most healthy air.
When we retreat to the country, we are hiding not from people, but from our pride, which, in the city and among people, operates unfairly and immoderately.
What’s the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!
Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.
Stranger in a strange country.
Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
Amos Oz is one of the finest novelists of this entire period. MY MICHAEL is a beautiful work of great depth and in some indescribable way lingers in the mind as a lyric song to his country’s people as much as a moving love story.
What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.
Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour’d and lov’d: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.