Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.