Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.

rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.

I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.

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