The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

Live the wonderful life that is in you.