Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.
The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
A gentleman never offends unintentionally
Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.