Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.