If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I am told they were) is that he had no sense of touch whatsoever. Nothing made any impression on his skin. He could feel neither the shape nor the texture of a poem with his hands.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

The trouble about most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation, or hope to be one in the next.

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.