The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

“She is all the great heroines of the world in one.”

“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellec…”

“If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, w…”

“I think thy spirit hath passed away From these white cliffs and high-embattled …”