Art without life is a poor affair.

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

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