A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.