To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!