"The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it."

"Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason."

"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite."

"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."

"It is a unyielding truth that love is the bridge that unites two souls across the chasms of mortal solitude — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else."

"You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it."

"To love truly means recognizing that the melody of life is composed of both highs and lows."