“Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.”

“To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”

“Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”

“Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.”

“Like all good reputations... every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”

“I would sooner have fifty unnatural vices than one unnatural virtue. It is unnatural virtue that makes the world, for those who suffer, such a premature Hell.”

“I have also learnt sympathy with suffering. To me, suffering seems now a sacramental thing, that makes those whom it touches holy.”