Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

Any place that we love becomes our world.