The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. – Oscar Wilde
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. – Oscar Wilde
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. – Oscar Wilde
The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it — a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes — will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished. – John Stuart Mill