Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

But after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room.

I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.

It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.