The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passions are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty!

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.