"Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, where death's approach is seen so terrible!"

"If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions."

"O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant."

"O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?"

"Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency."

"The wages of sin are death, but the benefits include dental, major medical, two week paid vacation, pension fund, and stock options. Actually, taken as a package, it's a rather attractive deal."

"A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."

"Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day."

"...You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity."