What fire does not destroy, it hardens - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."

"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different."

"There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him."

"You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."

"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."