"To hold, as 't were, the mirror..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“The weakest goes to the wall.”

“They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.”

“A woman's thought runs before her actions.”

“If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt”

“Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.”

“Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the solemn and ceremonious literary perfections of the eighteenth century? They have brought back to the pictorial art a new draught of joie de vivre; and the beauty of their work is instinct with gaiety, and floats in sparkling air. I do not expect these masters would particularly appreciate my defence, but I must avow an increasing attraction to their work.”

“A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.”

“Investigate what is, and not what pleases.”

“With everything we do in life we identify ourselves. Here is a man who says harsh words to me. I feel anger coming on me. In a few seconds anger and I are one, and then comes misery. Attach yourselves to the Lord and to nothing else, because everything else is unreal. Attachment to the unreal will bring misery. There is only one Existence that is real, only one Life in which there is neither object nor [subject].”