"The intellect is not a serious thing,..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”

“The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.”

“When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.”

“It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead to too many places. I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than an intellectual, abstract understanding.”

“There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.”

“The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.”

“There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.”

“When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows.”

“Play is the highest from of research.”