You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left at all.

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

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.