Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

Personality is lower than partiality.

Above all nations is humanity.

We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them.

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

Art is whatever you can get away with.

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.

Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.

I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

This Christmas and every Christmas will be richer by sharing and enjoying gifts that cannot be held but only felt.

I'm looking for diversity, all my characters may or may not be on the wrong side of the tracks. It doesn't mean that they're all the same.

Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to give up all the other important things.

You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority.