Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

The great events of the world take place in the brain.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.