Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.
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