Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

You will think less of the art, when you know the artist

No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.