How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.

Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.

I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

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

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.