there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.

There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.