Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.