Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

Art should never be popular.

Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.

People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.