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Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

William Howard Taft

Failure

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.

James Joseph Sylvester

We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.

It may be unfair of me but I do feel I know it.

Tilda Swinton

May

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

Life

May

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.

For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.

Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether.