Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.

It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.

Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.