People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.