It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.

I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.

What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.