Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.