It is better not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world.

But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.

The middle classes air their moral prejudices over their gross dinner-tables, and whisper about what they call the profligacies of their betters in order to try and pretend that they are in smart society and on intimate terms with the people they slander.

I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Give a man a mask and he'll tell you the truth.

A cold rain began to fall, and the blurred street-lamps looked ghastly in the dripping mist.

You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing. You lost life's secret.