“Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.”

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

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.

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.

I can sell anything. I’m very convincing.

You don’t have to convince or please to no one, but yourself.

I am convinced that God is love.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

But fear is love that has been convinced that it never belonged.

If people are their deepest thoughts and darkest secrets, I’m convinced that no one really knows anybody.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.

Be strong in who you are and, don’t let the actions of another convince you that you are not good enough.