I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.