Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.