The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it.

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

His brothers were the type; he was the variation.

The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.