America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

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

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.