"The true critic is he who bears..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.”

“What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.”

“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.”

“Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation”

“They have a plentiful lack of wit.”

“A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.”

“The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.”

“Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.”

“... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.”