It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting