My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.