They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

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