I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

Any place you love is the world to you.

Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.