One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

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.

Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.