“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.””

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.

Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.

Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.

Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.

The best things in life make you sweaty.

A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.

Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.

All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.

I used to envy the sun, for having seen it all. I was wrong. Left with nothing to see, how bored she must be.

Doubts are powerful. They, not only demand we look again, they tell us what to see.

Doing good and being good; are two different things. The first is a shirt we put on, take off. The latter is our skin.

When you have no money, you’re penniless. When you have no love, you’re poor.