If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.