Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Genius lasts longer than beauty

Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.