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

We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it