They live as we all should live-undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They neither bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands.
The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world.
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.
there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.
Your cynicism is simply a pose.”