"Life! Life! Don't let us go to..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Everything that is popular is wrong.”

“Biography lends to death a new terror.”

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”

“If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.”

“Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"”

“The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.”

“Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.”

“And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?”

“Experience is the thing of supreme value".”