We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
The people rate strength before everything.
We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.