The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.