There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all."

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

"The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms."