A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

Flowers are like visible messages from God.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

There is no wealth but love.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.

Everything is a product of time because it took a particular period of time to achieve that result

Having faith and belief in my inner guidance allows me to see the world in a way that strengthens that faith and belief and brings with it a life filled with welcomed expectation and awe.

... waiting for the spell to end, as all spells must.

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

Books don't prattle. Books don't make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It's a very satisfying partnership.

The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.

When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

The case for government by elites is irrefutable.

It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.