Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.

The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.