Always be a little unexpected.

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country

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.

Every thing to be true must become a religion.

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

Art should never be popular.