The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.

Art, like Nature, has her monsters

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.