"Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."
"We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death."
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Source: Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.12, Bloomsbury Publishing
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