With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

There are no new ideas about female education.

We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.

Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.