If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.

Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks ... to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capitalism; Liberalism attacks monopoly.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.