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

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.

It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.

An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.