Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.