In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

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.

We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.

It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.