Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Education is the greatest gift to enlightenment.

We decided to become a society of women, a club to make sure women were protected. The club was something important back then. Not like it is today.

THE MARK OF ATHENA BABY!!!!!!

Soulfully partake of life, not how you envisage – but, in a manner that was ordained.

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.

One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it

Don't let your feelings be a God to you.

Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.

Seth told us good night and left. I watched him go wistfully. “Anyone else here feel like swooning?

I'm not sure why my muse is female, except when I am deliberately playing against that figure.