The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Life is a school of probability.

Growing older is a precious commodity. Only a few can endure to achieve that distinguished distinction and quality.

He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

The workers love Khrushchev very much. He hasn't got an enemy in the entire country. Quite a few under it.

For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.

Sometimes people, their creative drive comes from an energy to try to heal themselves.

Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

Imagine a temple inside your mind, a haven from the chaos of the world. Visit often.

I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.

I don't want to preach, and I don't want to tell people what to do.