Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.