Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.

Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.

It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.

Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can furnish, without the intolerable infliction of "dressing" to go into it. In your shabbiest coat and cosiest slippers you may socially chat even with the fastidious Earl of Chesterfield, and lounging under a tree enjoy the divinest intimacy with my late lord of Verulam.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

And the visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.