To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

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.