Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the mystics of history. You cannot take the region of the unknown and calmly say that, though you know nothing about it, you know all the gates are locked. We do not know enough about the unknown to know that it is unknowable.

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.