An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

Hope is a very thin diet.

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Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there. I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one.

Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.

I want the roast to be like a party where everybody goes and has a good time.

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.

Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate.