We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
The obstacles which the heart meets with are like granite blocks which one alone can not move.
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?
It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak, and another to hear.
The light of the sun is but the shadow of love.