America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

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