No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

Some things are best mended by a break.

Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.