If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can't get out of it if we would.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.