Cats can be very funny, and have the oddest ways of showing they're glad to see you.

Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.

As a rule, it was the pleasure-haters who became unjust.

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.