"We live in the age of the..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”

“The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.”

“The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.”

“When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.”

“Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.”

“Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.”

“If you are stimulated by what you do, you never get tired”

“No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.”

“I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.”