A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.

In married life three is company and two none.

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

I have a simple taste, only the best.