Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

Don't use big words. They mean so little.

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.