Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed.

Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.

How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.