To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

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

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust.