Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.