The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; whatfrom the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer.

From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.

If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything, while age Knows only too well that it has got away with nothing.

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists

Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know.

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.