What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?

Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.

I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground.

I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful to find out and preserve his own way.

Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.

As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.