It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

“I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.” 

“From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power.” 

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right.

Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread, and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men’s possessions, in all men’s affections, in art, in nature, and in hope.

Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another’s dogmatism. Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.

“The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.” 

“I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.” 

“Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain. Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer’s day.” 

“Genius lasts longer than beauty” 

“I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.” 

“She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost.” 

“It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.” 

“Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.” 

“Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.” 

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. 

“You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.” 

“I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.” 

“My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect---simply a confession of failures. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. But I don't want to interrupt you. Go on with your story. ” 

“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.” 

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.” 

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.” 

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”