Fine art is the only teacher except torture.
The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.
It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.
No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does
Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.
We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.