“Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”

Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.

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.

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

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!

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

Every day, stand guard at the door of your mind.

When a door closes you have two choices: give up, or keep going.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don’t eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.

I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.