Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Be positive at all times! Leave out the negatives.

Why was he drawn to complicated women, or were all women--all people, finally--complicated?

We are not certain, we are never certain.

God made Blues right after he made woman.

I had long hair since I was 17 years old. It was time for me to let go. I hated being the guy at the wedding in a suit with a ponytail.

Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?

Time itself is our tragedy and most of us are fighting some kind of war against it.

I think that our strength is actually how niche our product is, and not that it's very commercial and very similar to things that are out there already.

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

The clubs, that's easy to cut out, because I know when the season ends I can look forward to going out.