To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.

In a play, certainly, the subject is of more importance than in any other work of art. Infelicity, triviality, vagueness of subject, may be outweighed in a poem, a novel, or a picture, by charm of manner, by ingenuity of execution; but in a drama the subject is of the essence of the work-it is the work. If it is feeble, the work can have no force; if it is shapeless, the work must be amorphous.

One is oneself a fine consequence.

When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.