The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

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.