A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that - perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.

There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.