The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.