Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. - Oscar Wilde

Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling, and Domine non sum dignus should be on the lips and in the hearts of those who receive it.

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.