Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.