Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.