You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.

When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.