Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another. |
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go |
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go |
Some of these people need ten years of therapy -ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy. |
Something was dead in each of us,/ And what was dead was Hope. |
Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime |
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. |
Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain. |
Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you. |
Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact |
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music -- his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting -- that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal. |
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us. |
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography. |
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. |
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. |