Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude.

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.