“Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy.”

“Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or…”

“There 's a skirmish of wit between them.”

“Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound.”

“Everything tends towards catastrophe and collapse. I am interested, geared up and happy. Is it not horrible to…”

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”