Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!
Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.