I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.