When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.