"The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards"

"A Cynic is what an Optimist calls a Realist"

"Wagner drives the nail into your head with swinging hammer blows."

"What is now proved was only once imagined."

"Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement."

"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."

"We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."

"Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance."

"Tis the witching hour of night, Or bed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen For what listen they?"

"A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well."

"That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency."

"Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love."