I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

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.

I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.