To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it