To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

All sensuality is one, though it takes many forms; all purity is one. It is the same whether a man eat, or drink, or cohabit, or sleep sensually. They are but one appetite, and we only need to see a person do any one of these things to know how great a sensualist he is. The impure can neither stand nor sit with purity.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!

And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass.

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.