"Those had left to love on earth were then: brothers and sisters in hatred, whom they called then: brothers and sisters in love."

— Georg Brandes

"Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! — tear up the planks! — here, here! — it is the beating of his hideous heart!"

— Edgar Allan Poe

"Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of pers…"

— Jack Kerouac

"Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable."

— Mary Oliver

"A man, Mr. Scrymgeour, may fall into a thousand perplexities, but if his heart be upright and his intelligence unclouded, he will issue from…"

— Robert Louis Stevenson