There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.