In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill.

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.

Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.

The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.

Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.

A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.

The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.

The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in.

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.

Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it.

Traveling is like dancing lessons from God.

If a community decides that some conduct is prejudicial to itself, and so decides by numbers sufficient to impose its will upon dissenters, I know of no principle which can stay its hand.

Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.

Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.

I have no interest in maintaining a relationship with someone who didn’t love me enough to stick around.

Be careful what you dream: soon your dreams will be dreaming you.