The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.

Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.

One learned gentleman, "a sage grave man," Talk'd of the Ghost in Hamlet, "sheath'd in steel"— His well-read friend, who next to speak began, Said, "That was poetry, and nothing real;" A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers' Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten'd breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.

Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.

How, frequently, some murder'd man appear'd, To tell his wife and children who had done it...

As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

A covetous man's penny is a stone.

Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.