For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.