"New customs, Though they be never so..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“If the boy have not a woman's gift To rain a shower of commanded tears, An onion will do well for such a shift.”

“Well-apparel'd April on the heelOf limping Winter treads.”

“Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.”

“The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.”

“It's legal for men to be floorwalkers and illegal for women to be streetwalkers.”

“Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.”

“To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.”

“What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.”

“What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.”