“The eyes those silent tongues of love.”

“No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.”

“For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.”

“That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.”

“Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.”

“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”

“There is something relentless about the serenity of nature which has a crushing effect on the human mind. The lavish splendour of her phases, which completely ignores human strife, fills the race o...”

“Almost every day I can feel myself suffering mainly in the head, I can explain the pain to myself but knowing it comes from an inflammation of my imagination doesn't prevent it being reality itself...”

“I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for a few minutes.”

“World is not like what you see”

“What you see is what suffices you”

“...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.”

“Too much of a good thing can be taxing.”

“Money often costs too much.”

“I have too much money invested in sweaters.”