I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

No one ever came to grief-except honorable grief-through riding horses. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing horses, but never through riding them; unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die.

An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.

We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.

Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.

I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]