Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. - Oscar Wilde

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Art is Individualism, and Individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. Therein lies its immense value. For what it seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.