Women are a fascinatingly wilful sex. Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
No man came across two ideal things. Few come across one.
To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
The state is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature and not on its growth and development.
Jealousy, which is an extraordinary source of crime in modern life, is an emotion closely bound up with our conceptions of property, and under socialism and individualism will die out. It is remarkable that in communistic tribes jealousy is entirely unknown.
All art is immoral.
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present knows nothing of the age in which he lives. To realise the nineteenth century one must realise every century that has preceded it and that has contributed to its making.