“All trials are trials for one's life.”

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”

“And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.”

“One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.”

“To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.”

“We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.”

“Do you really think ... that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not -- there is no weakness in that.”