There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life. -Frederika Bremer.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

Money is an excellent servant, but a horrible master.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters.

We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dreams.

Independence is essential for permanent but fatal to immediate success.

Progress cannot be organized.

We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parent twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil never whoops, as he of old; It's clever, but is it art?

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

So unpleasant he/she can piss off the Pope saying good morning.

Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness That even above the smiles and frowns of fate Exalts great Nature's favourites: a wealth That ne'er encumbers, nor can be transferr'd.

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume.

Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.

What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury?

To change and to change for the better are two different things.

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

We must become the change we want to see.