There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

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

Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in great architecture, great painting and great literature. Only in the atmosphere thus engendered floats that impalpable dust of ideas which is the real culture. A colony of ants or bees will never create a Parthenon.

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.