We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.

Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.