The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

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

this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

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.