I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.