When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.