The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

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

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.