I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.