Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.

I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.