To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

I walk the world in wonder.

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.