Hearts Live By Being Wounded

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.