"Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.”

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].”

“Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.”

“I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!”

“Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.”

“We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.”

“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.”

“A gun will give you the body, not the bird”

“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.”