Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.