“You are a sceptic." "Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith." "What are you?" "To define is to limit.” 

Stay at home in your mind. Don’t recite other people’s opinions.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

“you will always love, and you will always be loved” 

“You, who know all the secrets of life, tell me how to charm Sibyl Vane to love me! I want to make Romeo jealous, I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.” 

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

Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

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

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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.

"Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.” 

“You and I will always be friends."

“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions."

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

“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.” 

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.” 

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.