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

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

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.

My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.

Modern history is, as you all know, full of examples of great movements that disappeared because they had ceased to have any genuine reason for existence. The important thing is to have a faith to live by, and that goes for us in this party.

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

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