No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.
Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.