It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.

She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.

She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.

All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree.