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.

Paradoxes are the only truths.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.