There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.

In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.

if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.

A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.