Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.