Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

We fear something before we hate.

The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.

There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love.

Everyone has the right to express an opinion. No one has the right to be listened to.