American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers. - William Somerset Maugham

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.