The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

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

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded....He stands apart, and the chief value of his work is in its prophecy, not in its performance. He has begun a prelude to larger themes. He is the herald to a new era. As a man he is the precursor of a fresh type. He is a factor in the heroic and spiritual evolution of the human being. If Poetry has passed him by, Philosophy will take note of him.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.