Tell me, when you are alone with him [ Max Beerbohm ] Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask? - Oscar Wilde

When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.