For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who "believe and tremble" has one.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.

The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.

You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.

Seeing other people in pain causes me pain.

It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.

Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil.

She closes the door completely, and I crouch there. I allow myself to fall forward and rest my head on the door frame. My breath bleeds. My heartbeat drowns my ears.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.