We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living.

Don't take my hate personal. I hate even myself.

Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906]

The mirror had no power. The mirror was just a piece of silvered glass

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

If Shakespeare was alive today, he'd be writing wrestling shows.

In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts.

A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence... defines what can and cannot be done to her.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

I think the boarding schools are like miniature versions of "Lord of the Flies."

Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.