The end of culture is right living

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

Nothing more predisposes someone in our favour than to let him rob you a little.

Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.