Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.