"Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby"

"Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison"

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison"

"When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out"

"Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself"

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man"

"What a nice night for an evening"

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress"

"Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night"

"In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day"

"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can"