"Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit;..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.”

“You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.”

“Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?”

“Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School.”

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”

“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.”

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

“I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicatedTo closeness and the bettering of my mind.”

“Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.”