That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.