Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival

Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.