A good death does honour to a whole life.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

Whenever I look at the masses, I feel one day the earth will certainly explode.

A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.

One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.

It helps me sleep at night.

I was afraid of being judged too harshly. But I'd let those fears overwhelm me for far too long.

Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

I have an idea that all sensible people will ultimately be damned.

Stage performing is a dying art form.