The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

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.

Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.