With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.

A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.

A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.