“Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.”

Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.

To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.

What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.

The strong must learn to be lonely.

There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.

The majority never has right on its side.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.

What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

If we hold on together I know our dreams will never die Dreams see us through to forever Where clouds roll by For you and I.

Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man.

You’re walking by the tomb of Battiades, Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy Laughter at the right moment, over the wine.

You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues…And you know it don’t come easy.

I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.

The idle mind knows not what it wants.

That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.

Know thyself as the pride of His creation, the link uniting divinity and matter; behold a part of God Himself within thee; remember thine own dignity nor dare descend to evil or meanness.