Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.