We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.

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.

Love songs are nothing without exaggeration.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

I’m half crazy but I know the Devil real. I should know, I signed a record deal.

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

He that makes his bed ill, lies there.

I can see Sue and I leading this team to many more championships...We're going to take this and learn from it. We worked too hard for this.

It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.

I try to stay away from forced intimacy.

Any media-brainwashed automaton can summon the insipid courage to peer into the horrifying abyss. But it takes a freaking genius with a fearless imagination to peer into the maw of happiness.

I'm not anxious to starve myself. For me, it's not at all sexy to be ultra-thin.