The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
Oscar WildeThe reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.
Oscar WildeThere are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.
Oscar Wilde