The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
One is absolutely sickened, not by crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
Imagination is a quality given to a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour is provided to console him for what he is.
I see when men love women, they give them but a little of their lives. But women, when they love give everything.
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.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees dawn before the rest of the world.