Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that - perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.

Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.