To be popular I must be mediocre.

Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!

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.

I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life