One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

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.

My tastes are simple. I like only the very best.

Lobbyists are the touts of protected industries.