If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.
It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.
If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.
No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.