You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.
Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
Love is easily killed.
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.