Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Song is the heroics of speech.

There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.