The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

The 100% American is 99% idiot.