I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

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

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

If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!

It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.