“English Prosody has tended to be a subject for cranks.”

“The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.”

“Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.”

“This world has been corrupt from the beginning. It was humans who corrupted the noble order with manipulative ideas. They always tend to seek justification for themselves. The fact is that no one can escape from personal motives and subjectivity.”

“Perhaps because there are so few good studies, economists tend to undervalue and misunderstand the exercise when they think of their subject.”

“We absorb attitudes as well as subject matter in the learning process. …the attitudes tend to determine what we see, and what we fail to see, in the subject matter. This is why attitude is just as important as content in the educational process.”

“As humans, we tend to believe what we think is true, even though what we believe is not necessarily true. It's difficult for us to escape the spark of subjectivity.”

“He is the first of our writers whose style is cloathed with that perspicuity, in which the English phraseology appears at this day to an English reader…Whether his subject be the life of a hermit or a hero, of saint Austin or Guy earl of Warwick, ludicrous or legendary, religious or romantic, a history or an allegory, he writes with facility.”

“More and more, the subject of an exhibition tends not be the display of artworks, but the exhibition of the exhibition as a work of art. Here, the Documenta team, headed by Harald Szeemann, exhibits (artworks) and exposes itself”

“It is in that English Parliament the chains for Ireland are forged, and any Irish patriot who goes into that forge to free Ireland will soon find himself welded into the agency of his country’s subjection to England.”