Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.

Nothing but real love--(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can repay us for the loss of freedom--the cares and fears of poverty--the cold pity of the world that we both despise and respect.

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.