Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.