Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

To define is to limit.

Everything popular is wrong.