Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

People are either charming or tedious.

Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.