Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.