One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
From E. M. Forster
I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
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