You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.

Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

It is no exaggeration to say that Israeli policy in the occupied territories is not simply a matter of foreign policy - it is a matter for British domestic security policy too.

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.