The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.

Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.

Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love.

Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.

We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?