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

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?

The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me.

All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.

Silence is the essential condition of happiness.

Out of my great sorrows, I make little songs.