A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.