Life is a test and this world a place of trial.

I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional.

Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.

It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.

No matter. The dead bird does not leave the nest.

Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.

Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.