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

To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he will not see that one must pay for an idea as well as for anything else. He will have them all at once in one wild intellectual harem, no matter how much they quarrel and contradict each other.

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.