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.
Oscar WildeIt was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
Oscar WildeIndeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
Oscar Wilde