The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that - perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.

LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.