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.

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.

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

Youth is the only thing worth having.

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.