authenticity Quotes

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

One may be humble out of pride.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

I understand that all the songs I write are quite melodramatic and are quite extreme from my perspective, but that's how life feels to everyone at some point.