"The man who melts With social sympathy,..." - Quote by Euripides

“Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.”

“New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.”

“If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe.”

“I weave the shoes of Sorrow:Soundless shall be the footfall lightIn all men's ears of Sorrow,Sudden and light.”

“The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.”

“I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel.”

“There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.”

“Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.”

“She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.”