When Oscar Wilde arrived for a visit to the United States in 1882, he was asked by customs officials if he had anything to declare.
He replied: ``Only my genius.''
Fifteen years later, alone and broken in prison, he reflected on his life of waste and excess.
``I have been a spendthrift of my genius . . . I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.''
C.S. Lewis expressed it well when he said, ``Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most...