The prison is the state writ small.
The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.
Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.
A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.
Even in rapture, part of the mind watches.
If folly disappeared, wit would starve.