The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.

There's never any great risk as long as you have money.

Don't go fighting against the Spring.

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin.