To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!

Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.