One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Any long work in which poetry is persistent be it epic or drama or narrative is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.

The more a race is governed by its passions the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument the more intense will be its love of music.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Organizations endure however in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

Many a happiness in life as many a disaster can be due to chance but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.