In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg
And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.
Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.
What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.