If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

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".

Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.