Genius lasts longer than beauty

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

What the hell is an oboe?

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.