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.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

Music is the perfect type of art.