God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.

As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.

The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.