My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down. – Louisa May Alcott, in Life, Letters, and Journals, ed. E.D. Cheney, 1889
One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeares characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality. – Kenneth Branagh
