Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.
Born to myself, I like myself alone.
Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.
I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.
Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.
Man differs more from man than man from beast