The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks.
A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.
No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.