"In the wild struggle for existence, we..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.”

“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”

“There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.”

“Man by nature wants to know.”

“I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.”

“Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.”

“The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.”

“I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.”

“It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.”