A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.