Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

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

A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . .

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.

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.

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.