“No more tears now; I will think upon revenge.”
“The more I think about it, the more I believe there has to be a subtle yet satisfying method of revenge.”
“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ”
“Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".”
“I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despairRise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.”