Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causeth his down-going.

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

Christianity is called the religion of pity.

Without music, life would be a mistake.