“One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.”
“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
“All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.”
“People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and prose, and people have always delighted in it.”
“It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.”
“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”
“Minds differ still more than faces.”