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

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.

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.

You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!

Seeing him was a sucker punch to the gut. Once upon a time he’d loved her. And then when he’d stopped, it wasn’t really his fault.

It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.

I can’t change the world, I can only change how I choose to live in it.

Power is always right weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.

As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.

Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

Confidence without clarity is always a disaster.

The thing that is always important to me is the relationships. I feel like until I get around with the actual people that I am going to be working with there is only so much that I can do.

The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.

I also think it's important not to demonize [Donald] Trump voters.