"No one is born a scholar or sage.  Even geniuses need to read books, if only once." —Dzogchen Ponlop

A rather dubious statement: "Music is seldom used to frighten."  From Dark Shadows episode 1063.

Just a reminder.  From I Take Out the Garbage Because I Love You by Eldon & Carolyn Weisheit.

Disappointing -- this turned out to be a book on economics.  But economics used to be way more interesting.  The Sphinx Catechism by Henry Rawie, 1911.

"Ghosts that draw tight fingers around the present."  From Dark Shadows episode 13.

From The Holy Tablets.

From filmmaker Bruce LaBruce's account of being abducted by aliens.  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2000.

It might have been tempting to round up his faces to an even 100, but they didn't wish to exaggerate (even though they showed only 9 of the 84).  From The New Movie Magazine, 1935.

From Birmingham-Southern's 1920 yearbook.

"We are a family born to tragedy.  We seem somehow to invite it and then thrive on it.  What's wrong with us?"  From Dark Shadows episode 1118.

From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1897.

"The ghost in me had no feeling for steam."  From A Child of the Century by Ben Hecht, 1954.

This sort of science is rarely taught anymore ... and look at the state of the world.  "Where the sea shell found its song," from The Bluebird's Garden by Patten Beard, 1915.