"A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible."

"Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself."

"Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose."

"I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past."

"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost."

"The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon."

"Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent."

"Work is the price which is paid for reputation."