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

I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.

The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.