Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.

the Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands, her bosom, her knees, her hair, her lithe and flowing clothes,Sweet bath, suavely Scented with ointments,has acquired a delicacy of skin, a refinement of tone, a kind of androgyny without which the toughest and most virile of geniuses remains, when it comes to artistic perfection, an incomplete being.

Imagination is the queen of the truth and the possible is one of the provinces of the truth.

I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who loves us-I don't mean who indulges us, but who loves us enough to be on our side-then it's easier to grow resilience, to grow belief in self, to grow self-esteem. And it's self-esteem that allows a person to stand up.

I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.

Laugh as often as possible. You must. Because the world will offer you every reason to weep. So as often as possible, you laugh. That, I think, is part of the Great Love.

I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

Eternal superiority of the Dandy. What is the Dandy?

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.