The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man, / The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.