I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

There is no sin except stupidity.

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.