I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray. Chasuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chasuble: And often, I've been told, not even to her.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.