I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.