You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.
Circumstances should never alter principles!
Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.