Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.

Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the solemn and ceremonious literary perfections of the eighteenth century? They have brought back to the pictorial art a new draught of joie de vivre; and the beauty of their work is instinct with gaiety, and floats in sparkling air. I do not expect these masters would particularly appreciate my defence, but I must avow an increasing attraction to their work.

It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.

I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.