It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize