It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.