All art is quite useless.

Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

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.

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.