Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months?

It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.

Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.