For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.

Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets

And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.