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.

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.

"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."