Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home

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

I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

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.

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.