No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:I see heaven's glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me from fear

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

She burned too bright for this world.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not.

Your eyes flashed fire into my soul. I immediately read the words of Dostoyevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of Albert Schweitzer, I FANCY YOU!

He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken.

I was most incorrigibly devoted to versifying, and all my spouse's wholesome admonitions had no manner of effect on me; in short, I believe this scribbling itch is an incurable disease.

It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.

You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.

He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot