“Never fear to weep;
For tears are summer showers to the soul,
To keep it fresh and green.”
Source: Savonarola (1881), Candida to Valori in Act IV, sc. iv; p. 264.
“Your logic may be good,
But dialectics never saved a soul.”
Source: Savonarola (1881), Frà Domenico in Act II, sc. ix; p. 197.
“Death is the looking-glass of life wherein
Each man may scan the aspect of his deeds.”
Source: Savonarola (1881), Girolamo Savonarola in Act I, sc. iv; p. 49.
“Know, Nature, like the cuckoo, laughs at law,
Placing her eggs in whatso nest she will.”
Source: Savonarola (1881), Lorenzo de' Medici in Act I, sc. i; p. 14.
Source: Savonarola (1881), Lorenzo de' Medici in Act I, sc. i; pp. 6–7.
Source: Savonarola (1881), Lorenzo de' Medici in Act I, sc. i; p. 6.
Source: Fortunatus the Pessimist (1892), Urania in Act IV, sc. ii; p. 178.
“Why should you,
Because the world is foolish, not be wise?”
Source: Fortunatus the Pessimist (1892), Franklin in Act II, sc. iv; p. 109.
“There is no office in this needful world
But dignifies the doer if done well.”
Source: Fortunatus the Pessimist (1892), Franklin in Act I, sc. iv; p. 65.
“The Devil is an echo
Of search unsatisfied.”
Source: Fortunatus the Pessimist (1892), Fortunatus in Act I, sc. iii; p. 35.
“Towns can be trusted to corrupt themselves.”
Source: Fortunatus the Pessimist (1892), Abaddon in Act I, sc. iii; p. 22.
“'Tis a world
Where all is bought, and nothing's worth the price.”
Source: Fortunatus the Pessimist (1892), Fortunatus in Act I, sc. ii; p. 17.
Source: Fortunatus the Pessimist (1892), Fortunatus in Act I, sc. ii; p. 15.
“Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.”
Source: Soliloquies in Song (1882), "A Woman's Apology", stanza XI; p. 26
“Who once believed will never wholly doubt.”
Source: Prince Lucifer (1887), Lucifer in Act VI, sc. ii; p. 193.
“Who once has doubted never quite believes.”
Source: Prince Lucifer (1887), Eve in Act VI, sc. ii; p. 193.
“Death is master of lord and clown.
Close the coffin and hammer it down.”
Source: Prince Lucifer (1887), Adam in Act IV, sc. iv; p. 111.
Source: Prince Lucifer (1887), Abdiel in Act III, sc. iii; p. 80.
“Love and naughtiness are always in their teens.”
Source: Prince Lucifer (1887), Crone in Act III, sc. i; p. 63.
“[E]xclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.”
Source: The Garden That I Love (1894), p. 117.