Lord Bacon could as easily have created this planet as he could have written Hamlet.

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. It they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

No pressure, no diamonds.

A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.

Delacroix etait passionnement amoureux de la passion, et froidement determine a chercher les moyens d'exprimer la passion de la maniere la plus visible. Dans c…

Aeschylus had a clear eye for the commonest things. His genius was only an enlarged common sense. He adverts with chaste severity to all natural facts. His sub…

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it ha…