You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.

Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.