"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."
— Charles Dickens

"I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose."
— Anne Rice (The Vampire Lestat)

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages."
— William Shakespeare

"The mind is its own place, and in itself
can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"Hell is other people."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (No Exit: A Play in One Act)

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
— Voltaire

"Music is the universal language of mankind."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
— Berthold Auerbach

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
— Mark Twain

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."
— Augustine of Hippo

"A well composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter any other way."
— Caroline Gordon

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
— Charles W. Eliot

"When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing."
— Enrique Jardiel Poncela