The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

I walk the world in wonder.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.