All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.

There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.