In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.

Protagoras

Eccentricities of genius.

Charles Dickens

It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.

James H. Breasted

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.

John Donne

Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Alan Watts

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

Jose Marti

Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.

Tia Carrere

It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

Wendell Berry

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

James Agee