Our Busy Age Does Not

High Art Alone Is Eternal And The Bust Outlives The City.

There Is Nothing Truly Beautiful But That Which Can Never Be Of Any Use Whatsoever; Everything Useful Is Ugly, For It Is The Expression Of Some Need, And Man's Needs Are Ignoble And Disgusting Like His Own Poor And Infirm Nature. The Most Useful Place In A House Is The Water-closet.

Fortune Loves To Give Bedroom Slippers To People With Wooden Legs, And Gloves To Those With No Hands.

It May Well Be That The Pictures Of Courbet, Manet, Monet And Their Like Contain Beauties Which Escape The Notice Of Such Old Romantic Heads As Ours, Already Streaked With Silver Threads.

Cats Are The Tigers Of Us Poor Devils.