My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. Lady Windermere's Fan

“But, whether true or false, my opinion is that in the world of knowledge the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with an effort; and, when seen, is also inferred to be the universal author of all things beautiful and right, parent of light and of the lord of light in this visible world, and the immediate source of reason and truth in the intellectual; and that this is the power upon which he who would act rationally either in public or private life must have his eye fixed.” Republic

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. A Woman of No Importance

There are few men who durst publish to the world the prayers they make to God. Essays