Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.

The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.