I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.