“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.”

“Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.”

“There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community”

“He atones for being occasionally somewhat overdressed by being always absolutely over-educated. He is a very modern type.”

“By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.”

“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.”

“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.”