Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

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

The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.

The day broke grey and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child's bed.