Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.