This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.

When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.