Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks, save so far as an excited horror, a promoted pity, a created expertness... proceed to read into them more or less fantastic figures.

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.

Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation.