Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust.

Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young.

Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

Heaven-gates are not so highly arched As princes' palaces; they that enter there Must go upon their knees.

A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Anything you see in me is in you. If you want to see a vicious killer, that's who you'll see, do you understand that? If you see me as your brother, that's wha…