"And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree"

"The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal."

"But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all."

"For just experience tells, in every soil, That those who think must govern those who toil"

"To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service."

"Crime generally punishes itself."

"Next to music, beer was best."

"We are homesick most for the places we have never known."

"Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them."

"We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known."

"How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?"

"The way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear."

"The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else."

"The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone."

"I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know."

"In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone."

"And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many."

"The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome."

"When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?"

"I m a stranger in a strange land."

"All we can do is go around telling the truth."

"I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely."

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."

"The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow."

"I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?"

"We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong."

"There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall."

"I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands."

"They are the we of me."

"It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated."

"Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved."

"Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone."

"A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp."

"The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination."

"She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other."

"The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen."

"My advice to you is this. Do not attempt to stand alone. ...The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone."

"But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music."

"There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form."

"The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect."

"It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see."

"It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright."

"There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book."

"Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about."

"The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself."

"Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have."

"While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming around the world"

"Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to."

"The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished....."

"There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries."