Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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

What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.