Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions - the idea of property... Property is merely the art of the democracy... One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property; because they are enemies of their own limitations.

Man is at his tallest when he bows.

Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God

To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.