All poetry is misrepresentation.
Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.
The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.
The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.
There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.
The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.