Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

The secret of life is in art.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

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.

It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.