Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy.

To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.

There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.