A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

Disobedience is man's original virtue.