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.
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.
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
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.
