If virtue promises happiness prosperity and peace then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us progress is always an approach toward it.
I choose my friends for their good looks my acquaintances for their good...
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good...
I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion...
He has no enemies but is intensely disliked by his friends.
An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.
True friends stab you in the front.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
I want my food dead. Not sick not dying dead.
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for...
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time...
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight and his punishment...
Biography lends to death a new terror.
One can survive everything nowadays except death and live down everything...
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one...
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that...
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship and it is far the...
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One...
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally...
What we have to do what at any rate it is our duty to do is to revive the...
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools...
The moment you think you understand a great work of art it's dead for you.
All art is quite useless.
It is through art and through art only that we can realise our perfection.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms the most immediate way...
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would...
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
