They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.