Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.