If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.

I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the Chancellors of God.

The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.