Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.

An index is a great leveller.

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