An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.