When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen..

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself..

... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin..

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are fre….

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence..

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality..

What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something that is worth p….

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented..

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home..

Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays o….

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?.

By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I me….

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth..

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness..

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it..

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish..

The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world..

All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart..

All great art contains an element of the irrational..

I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health..

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays..