Wisdom comes with winters

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.

In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.