Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

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.

Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.