I only knew that I had seen perfection face to face, and that the world had become wonderful to my eyes — to wonderful, perhaps, for in such mad wors… - Oscar Wilde

Where there is no love there is no understanding.

In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever. Fortunately, in America journalism has carried its authority to the grossest and most brutal extreme. As a natural consequence it has begun to create a spirit of revolt, people are amused by it, or disgusted by it, according to their temperaments. but it is no longer the real force it was. It is not seriously treated. In England, journalism, except in a few well-known instances, not having been carried to such excesses of brutality, is still a great factor, a remarkable power. The tyranny that it proposes to exercise over people's private lives seems to me to be quite extraordinary.

A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.