The value of a commodity, or the quantity of any other commodity for which it will exchange, depends on the relative quantity of labor which is necessary for its production, and not on the greater or less compensation which is paid for that labor.

只要人类继续无情地摧毁较低级的生命，他们永远不会知道健康和和平。因为只要人类屠杀动物，他们也会相互杀戮。

The concrete artist strives to express the spiritual in the most precise and objective form possible.

如果你不能嘲笑自己，你就错过了最好的笑话。

And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.Literary and Other Notes I, Woman’s World （November 1887）

 我从未遇到过一小时阅读不能解除的痛苦。