The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.

Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.

In married life three is company and two none.

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.