If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days.
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.
One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.
There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.
Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.
The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.