Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.