The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.

The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?