Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.