It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making light of any great difficulties or grief's that may beset us.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

Only the insane take themselves seriously.