The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.
The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.