All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it.

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.