I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.

When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours. It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.