The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.

Good clothes open all doors.

Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.