I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his abi... - Oscar Wilde

"nothing that is worth knowing can be taught"

"You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear."

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."

"If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame."

"No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone."