It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.