“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.”
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.