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.

It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.