Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.