The Artist Beholds In Nature More Than

Money's A Horrid Thing To Follow, But A Charming Thing To Meet.

To Criticize Is To Appreciate, To Appropriate, To Take Intellectual Possession, To Establish In Fine A Relation With The Criticized Thing And To Make It One's Own.

Excellence Does Not Require Perfection.

One Of My Latest Sensations Was Going To Lady Airlie's To Hear Browning Read His Own Poems - With The Comport Of Finding That, At Least, If You Don't Understand Them, He Himself Apparently Understands Them Even Less. He Read Them As If He Hated Them And Would Like To Bite Them To Pieces.

Everything About Florence Seems To Be Colored With A Mild Violet, Like Diluted Wine.