Some Folk Want Their Luck Buttered.

My Weakness Has Always Been To Prefer The Large Intention Of An Unskilful Artist To The Trivial Intention Of An Accomplished One: In Other Words, I Am More Interested In The High Ideas Of A Feeble Executant Than In The High Execution Of A Feeble Thinker.

If Galileo Had Said In Verse That The World Moved, The Inquisition Might Have Let Him Alone.

We Learn That It Is Not The Rays Which Bodies Absorb, But Those Which They Reject, That Give Them The Colours They Are Known By; And In The Same Way People Are Specialized By Their Dislikes And Antagonisms, Whilst Their Goodwill Is Looked Upon As No Attribute At All.

Ladies Know What To Guard Against, Because They Read Novels That Tell Them Of These Tricks.

Of Course Poets Have Morals And Manners Of Their Own, And Custom Is No Argument With Them.