If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.