The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.