Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.