Love is quivering happiness.

Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.

Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.

You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

Art is a step in the known toward the unknown