God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.

All great ideas are dangerous.

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.