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

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.