Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

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

Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.