The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.

And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.

The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.

Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.