Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.

The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.

God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.

Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered; it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity.

All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.

Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of ridicule or of calumny. No one shall be more virtuous or more intellectually gifted than others. Whoever, by the irresistable force of genius, rises above the common herd is certain to be ostracized by society, which will pursue him with such merciless derision and detraction that at last he will be compelled to retreat into the solitude of his thoughts.

Oh, they loved dearly: their souls kissed, they kissed with their eyes, they were both but one single kiss.