The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.