A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.