The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.

Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither