More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.

The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if somewhere there was somebody else's effort on which we could thrive.

Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.