The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.

The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.

The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.

By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.