You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.

Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.

no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all there is in life, it seems to me. But I grant you, if you deny the variety of love you deny love altogether. If you try to specialize love into one set of accepted feelings, you wound the very soul of love. Love must be multi-form, else it is just tyranny, just death