1. “To extract beauty from one’s own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.”
2. “You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.”
3. “It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal.. one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.”
4. “Books follow morals, and not morals books.”
5. “Modesty was made for the ugly.”
6. “To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with mind.”
7. “The purity of a person’s heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals.”
8. “The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.”
9. “Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly.”
10. “No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.”
