The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.