It did seem hard to be doing something heroic while everyone was too busy to notice.

If you want someone to tell you what to think..." "You will never be short of people willing to do so.

My dear fellow," he continued more soberly, "If you have managed to complicate things by forming a sentimental attachment in less than a week, then I doubt there is anything I can do for you. You, sir, are a romantic, and I suspect your condition is incurable.

Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the world shall be.

Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.

Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad.