Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

Every great literature has always been allegorical - allegorical of some view of the whole universe. The 'Iliad' is only great because all life is a battle, the 'Odyssey' because all life is a journey, the Book of Job because all life is a riddle.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert - himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason.

Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.