Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

The sky was pure opal now.

Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.