Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.
An empire is an immense egotism.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
There is no history; only biography.
The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.