domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.

What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience.

Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world.

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.

Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.

Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.