Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.