Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.

Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.

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

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.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.

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