In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end.

The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.