I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.