Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.

True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.