The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.