We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Light is the shadow of God.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

I trust the man, much less the men, not at all the crowd.

The essence of life is the power of love.

I am in the unthinkable situation that people cannot bear to contemplate.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.

Everyone sees the glory moments, but they don't see what happens behind the scenes.

I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.

I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work.

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.