'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

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.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time.

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.