"What the great ones do, the less..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.”

“Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.”

“No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here.”

“I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.”

“John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are very different from mine, and he has been a spokesman for the very ambitious, long, rather academic novel. But I don't think that what he is saying, so far as I understand it, is so very different from what I'm saying.”

“On the whole, my respect for my fellow-men, except as one may outweigh a million, is not being increased these days.... Such do not know that like the seed is the fruit, and that, in the moral world, when good seed is planted, good fruit is inevitable, and does not depend on our watering and cultivating; that when you plant, or bury, a hero in his field, a crop of heroes is sure to spring up. This is a seed of such force and vitality, that it does not ask our leave to germinate.”

“The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.”

“If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable.”

“We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.”