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

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.

When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".

Two days in this city is worth two months in New York.

Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.