Morality Is A Private And Costly Luxury.

Nothing In Education Is So Astonishing As The Amount Of Ignorance It Accumulates In The Form Of Inert Facts.

The Sensation Of Seeing Extremely Fine Women, With Superb Forms, Perfectly Unconscious Of Undress, And Yet Evidently Aware Of Their Beauty And Dignity, Is Worth A Week's Seasickness To Experience... [to Me] The Effect [of A Siva Dance] Was That Of A Dozen Rembrandts Intensified Into The Most Glowing Beauty Of Life And Motion.

Church And State, Soul And Body, God And Man, Are All One At Mont Saint Michel, And The Business Of All Is To Fight, Each In His Own Way, Or To Stand Guard For Each Other.

The Difference Is Slight, To The Influence Of An Author, Whether He Is Read By Five Hundred Readers, Or By Five Hundred Thousand; If He Can Select The Five Hundred, He Reaches The Five Hundred Thousand.

Thank God, I Never Was Cheerful. I Come From The Happy Stock Of The Mathers, Who, As You Remember, Passed Sweet Mornings Reflecting On The Goodness Of God And The Damnation Of Infants.