The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.