The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.