It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.