“But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.”

“What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.”

“nothing is worth doing except what the world says is impossible.”

“In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all. ”

“In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate the mere outward of things and feel pity, what pity can be given save that of scorn?”

“The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.”

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”