"What seems to us as bitter trials..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.”

“All criticism is a form of autobiography”

“It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.”

“Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.”

“There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.”

“Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.”

“We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.”

“The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.”

“Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.”