"You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another."

"The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid 'dens of crime' that Dickens loved to portray... but in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fing…"

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

"There is a history in all men's lives, figuring the nature of the times deceased."