“You have my best wishes, Mr. Douglas; still I cannot consent to be your wife. I shall become Mrs. President, or I am the victim of false prophets, but it will not be as Mrs. Douglas.””
“You may know the feeling. It’s the feeling you get when you’ve made something wonderful, and when you look back on it later, all you can say is: ‘I don’t even know where that came from.’ “You can’t repeat it. You can’t explain it. But it felt as if you were being guided. “The Romans had a specific term for that helpful house elf. They called it your genius”
“There are, of course, varying perspectives on the issue of criminal responsibility. Dr. Stanton Samenow is a psychologist who collaborated with the late psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Yochelson on a pioneering study at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C., about criminal behavior. After years of firsthand research that gradually stripped away most of his preconceived notions, Samenow concluded in his penetrating and insightful book, Inside the Criminal Mind, that “criminals think differently from responsible people.” Criminal behavior, Samenow believes, is not so much a question of mental illness as character defect.””
“Scholars have tried desperately to unravel the sonnets and identify the figures, publishing studies with titles like Shakespeare’s Sonnets Solved and The Secret Drama of Shakespeare’s Sonnets Unfolded, With the Characters Identified. But the sonnets remain opaque. Nothing in them fits the Stratford man’s life. “Shakespeare’s sonnets are an island of poetry surrounded by a barrier of icebergs and dense fog,” wrote the Harvard scholar Douglas Bush. But the fog itself is suggestive. It is the same fog that surrounds everything to do with Shakespeare.””
Elizabeth DouglasElizabeth Douglas, Countess of Erroll, was a notable Scottish aristocrat whose life and legacy were intertwined with the turbulent politics of 17th-century Scotland. As the youngest daughter of Willia...