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.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.