Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.