Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.
I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.
Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.