We stand, very still, on the stage, and the sets change and change, they blur and we are in another play, being treated as a different character, but knowing we are the same.

The true self has no age

All the music in the world cannot mend a broken heart

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

How can what he said to me be true?
If I don't succeed, what will I do?
Turn around, go back to Concord?
Leave New York behind
Unconquered? No!
How dare he make me doubt
The way I feel?
Doubt that each thrilling page
Is who i am?

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

But he didn't understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize. Their heart's desire, their dreams...But the price of getting what you want is getting what you once wanted.

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts  are dust and ashes, and forgot.