One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

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.