People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.