"Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.”

“I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.”

“Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.”

“I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.”

“You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, invented and put into the papers whatever might serve the [government] ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper.”

“The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.”

“The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.”

“We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.”

“I feel like our future is our confidence and self-esteem.”