A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.
There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.
The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.