The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

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

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.

What is one man's gain is another's loss.

The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.