Genius is talent provided with ideals.

For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not the very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

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

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.