"All the nations with armies and navies are too much afraid of each other to do more than growl.

Also I happen to want to do something different with my life, and you can't do anything unless you believe in what you are doing.

I want to leave behind me something more than the portrait of a tin soldier in the dining-room at Ashbridge.

After all, isn't an artistic profession the greatest there is?
For what counts, what is of value in the world to-day?
Greek statues, the Italian pictures, the symphonies of Beethoven, the plays of Shakespeare.

The people who have made beautiful things are they who are the benefactors of mankind.