I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.

The moderns do not realize modernity.

La mejor prueba de la cultura y la liberalidad de un hombre es su actitud ante las cosas que nunca sucedieron.

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.