“If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.”

“She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.”

“Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.”

“The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.”

“For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.”

“Away! Thou'rt poison to my blood.”

“I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.”

“She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.”

“Tremble, thou wretch,That hast within thee undivulged crimesUnwhipped of justice.”

“Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.”

“My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!”

“I that please some, try all, both joy and terrorOf good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.”

“Do all men kill the things they do not love?”

“If the masses can love without knowing why, they also hate without much foundation.”

“If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.”

“Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.”

“When law can do no right,Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.”

“The breach of customIs breach of all.”

“Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.”

“What is the city but the people?”

“The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.”

“Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.”

“At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.”