The Question Is Not Can Animals Speak

All Poetry Is Misrepresentation.

Those Physical Difficulties Which You Cannot Account For, Be Very Slow To Arraign; For He That Would Be Wiser Than Nature Would Be Wiser Than God.

In The Mind Of All, Fiction, In The Logical Sense, Has Been The Coin Of Necessity;—in That Of Poets Of Amusement—in That Of The Priest And The Lawyer Of Mischievous Immorality In The Shape Of Mischievous Ambition,—and Too Often Both Priest And Lawyer Have Framed Or Made In Part This Instrument.

Prose Is When All The Lines Except The Last Go On To The End. Poetry Is When Some Of Them Fall Short Of It.

The Addability Of The Happiness Of Different Subjects Is A Postulum Without Which All Political Reasonings Are At A Stand