Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

... life is short and the world is wide

Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.

...dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.