Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

The final mystery is oneself.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.