Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand!

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.

But why I cry out against Rubens is because he painted undressed people instead of naked ones.

The so called white races are really pinko-grey.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.