They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

Never buy anything simply because it is expensive.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?