“Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.”

“We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.”

“Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.”

“Inspiration is in seeing a part of the whole with the part of the whole in you.”

“The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.”

“So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies.”

“Merrily, merrily shall I live now,Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.”

“All is well ended if this suit be won. That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day.”