A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.