What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.