People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one.

Remembrance of things past.

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. [Merchant Of Venice]

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

There is no medicine to cure hatred.

Cry ''havoc!'' and let loose the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial.