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| The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, givne style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment. | | Friedrich Nietzsche | | |
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| The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it. | | Confucius | | |
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| The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
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| The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common! | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. | | Confucius | | |
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| The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them. | | Socrates | | |
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The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
Through this I know the advantage of taking no action. | | Lao Tzu | | |
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| The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women… merely adored. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| The sufferers parade their miseries, tear lint from their bruises, reveal their indictable crimes, that you may pity them. They like sickness, because physical pain will extort some show of interest from bystanders, as we have seen children, who, finding themselves of no account when grown people come in, will cough till they choke, to draw attention. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
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| The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
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| The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters. | | Confucius | | |
