I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly

The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."