The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.