You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.
Ideas are, in truth, force.
Excellence does not require perfection.
In art economy is always beauty.
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.