The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) - Wilde

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others.

Wayne Levin

William Rimmer

1869 - 1870 "Evening" or the "Fall of Day" - Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Surf

The End of Empire

The close relationship between rhetoric and politics was demonstrated when the Caesars overturned the Republic and ended free debate both in the oligarchic Senate and the carefully restricted popular assemblies. Oratory degenerated into showy and empty declamation, a wordy exhibitionism deprived of the vigor it had when it was the voice of free men, whether aristocratic or democratic, determining their own destiny. Without free speech, oratory become mere wind.
The Trial of Socrates, I.F. Stone, p. 43

Define

"It's not who you are inside, it's what you do that defines you"

the Power of Knowledge

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
Thomas Jefferson