The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
It is personalities not principles that move the age.
Everything popular is wrong.
Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.
Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.
Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.