Moderation is a fatal thing. . . . Nothing succeeds like excess.

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.