Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
From Oscar Wilde
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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