It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist.

Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.