To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.