Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.

We all have such fateful objects - it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another - carefully chosen by the Gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.