It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

To define is to limit.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.

I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.