There's no sin but stupidity.

Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

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.

Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.