“The Odyssey was written by Homer, or another Greek of the same name.”

“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”

“Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

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

“Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.”

“In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.”

“To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.”