But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before.

It was a passion neither of the mind nor of the heart, it was a force that comprehended them both, as if they were but the matter of love, its specific substance.

While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time.

...Mrs. Bostwick's face was heavy and lethargic, without any strength or delicacy, and it bore the deep marks of what must have been a habitual dissatisfaction.

But William Stoner knew of the world in a way that few of his younger colleagues could understand. Deep in him, beneath his memory, was the knowledge of hardship and hunger and endurance and pain.

Perfection is a faux. It’s a mask carved by our own poor esteem to hide who we really are and make others see what really isn’t us.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

Never forget that the most sacred right on this earth is mans right to have the earth to till with his own hands, the most sacred sacrifice the blood that a man sheds for this earth.

I am a man of my word.

Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.

Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!

Stuttering and trying to find your thoughts, the imperfections make the performances better.

The stage is not only a world apart, it is a myriad of worlds, and in those worlds a man can have anything he fancies, if only he believes in what he sees.

Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential.

Ask anyone who knows me - I am constantly moving things around in my place.