There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that - perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Life would be dull without them.

Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

Some things are more precious because they don't last long.