A damsel is a genius in the daytime and a beauty at night.

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

"Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music -- his own."

"What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race."

"It is well for our vanity that we slay the criminal, for if we suffered him to live he might show us what we had gained by his crime."