Like all good reputations... every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

“Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing whic…”

“There is no such thing as good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral- i…”

“He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's e…”

“Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.”