Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleance me in the great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.