It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Writing bores me so.