Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

Live the wonderful life that is in you.

George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.