I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.