The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.

Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and knocking heart may bless, Find our mortal world enough; Noons of dryness find you fed By the involuntary powers, Nights of insult let you pass Watched by every human love.

If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.