I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.

I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

They go forth [into the world] with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - not a cold one. The difference is important.

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.