I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

The weather still continues charming.

Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

There is no sin except stupidity.