Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

In other words, what we know for sure is entirely limited, and all the rest is basically opinion.

My pet peeve is when people criticize things when they're just trying to have a conversation.

The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished. Everything went past without me.

I'm not here to cast aspersions on anyone. I'm trying to unify the party, not find fault.

He's stuck at 3:14 a.m. with only the moon to talk to.

Confidence is a horrible thing

Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.

Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.