When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

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

Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.