The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.

The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.

A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Celebrate your existence!

A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.