The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

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

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

There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.