Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

"It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. . . . The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one."

His work was that curious mixture of bad painting and good intentions that always entitles a man to be called a representative British artist.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.