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.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

It is very wrong to kill any one[.]""Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.