My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!

Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.

Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.